Osprey Nest by Weezilou

Osprey Nest


Now that my little muse is back in Chicago, I went driving around town looking for a photo choice. What a wealth of choices Lunenburg has to offer! I like the idea of taking pictures every day, so it's a test run to see what's available.

Ken and I watched the adult osprey (left) land on the nest with a fresh stick, but when she left, we waited another 40 minutes in the hope she'd return and I could catch her in flight. Osprey are also known as "Sea Eagles". I'm not a very patient wildlife photographer as we gave up eventually, but I was pleased when I came home and found I'd gotten this.

I don't like to crop my photos and thus remove the date and time stamp, but I wanted to give you the best view. This was taken today at 11:13 AM.
Beautiful
June 25th, 2012  
beautiful photo Louise Gerry
June 25th, 2012  
very nice, Louise!
June 25th, 2012  
Wow what a wonderful capture, a great photograph Louise
June 25th, 2012  
very nice, love it
June 25th, 2012  
Excellent capture! How interesting that you found this.
June 25th, 2012  
Terrific shot, very beautiful.
June 25th, 2012  
They are quite the beautiful bird.
June 25th, 2012  
that's some nest. Good shot
June 26th, 2012  
wow, they do build huge nests don't they!
June 26th, 2012  
Oooo... wonderful find! I expect there will be babies soon - very exciting!
June 26th, 2012  
What a wonderful shot - good capture!
June 28th, 2012  
Fantastic. What a great find.
July 4th, 2012  
awesome! I photographed an osprey nest while on vacation as well! And I happened to capture a few in-flight photos! (I think the daddy was provoked by my presence, so I took a few and then returned to my vehicle)...The nest I photographed has a web-cam, so I'm waiting for my cousin to email me the website so that I can see the babies!
July 9th, 2012  
By the way, what program do you use that takes away your date/time stamp? I use several, and I've found that only when I do collages does the date go away.
July 9th, 2012  
@ellen Thanks for all the nice comments on the photos...good to see you again! Where did you vacation?

I use Photoshop and if I crop a picture at all, the date/time go away. As I'm really taking a photo-a-day, I hate to delete it, but...oh well!
July 9th, 2012  
These are great. What size lens do you use? I usually have my 300-500mm and I crop a bit too.
July 9th, 2012  
@sailingmusic My longest lens only goes to 200...I'd love to have one like yours!! I always hate to crop as I lose the daily information, but only wanted the subject matter here. Thanks for the vote of confidence!
July 9th, 2012  
@Weezilou I was in Florida - Orlando, Cocoa Beach, and then Jacksonville when I saw the osprey nest.

How strange. I do a lot of editing in photoshop, and it doesn't take away my time/date stamp.
July 9th, 2012  
@ellen "Editing" doesn't seem to have an effect on it, but if I crop and paste to a different sized "canvas", that's when the date stamp is lost...
July 9th, 2012  
ah, that makes sense. I just crop without pasting.
July 9th, 2012  
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