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On The Road – Mactree – Osprey

by WaterGirl|  June 28, 20215:00 am| 16 Comments

This post is in: Albatrossity, On The Road, Photo Blogging

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

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On the Road: Week of June 28 (5 am)

We are doing something a little different this week.  I gave Albatrossity and Bill a week off, and we have two new peeps with On the Road posts on Monday (Mactree) and Tuesday (Mawado), and then spend 3 more days in the Galapagos with arrieve.

Not to worry, though, we will be back to Spring in Flyover Country next Monday!

Paris in the Springtime: Week of June 28 (10 pm)

way2blue – Limeuil, France In June
Tom V – Paris in December

That’s it for After Dark for awhile, unless Paris/France photos show up on Monday or Tuesday.

?  And now we have some wonderful photos from new submitter Mactree.  As you can see, we still have birds today! :-)  May I just say that although I like to do lunch, I would rather not be lunch.

Mactree

Couple of Opsrey fishing & flying

On The Road - Mactree - Osprey 1
Salida COJune 18, 2021

Couple of Osprey

On The Road - Mactree - Osprey
Salida COJune 18, 2021

Osprey with lunch

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16Comments

  1. 1.

    Van Buren

    June 28, 2021 at 5:32 am

    Looks like one osprey did not want the other in the photo.

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    Laura Too

    June 28, 2021 at 6:38 am

    Attempting a photobomb? Cool, thanks!

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    Anonymous At Work

    June 28, 2021 at 7:35 am

    So thoroughly conditioned from childhood, all I saw in the second picture was “waste of a good trout” and spent some time trying to identify the species based on location, sizing, and possible coloring below gills (I think Rainbow because red just below gills isn’t prominent enough for Cutthroat).

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    arrieve

    June 28, 2021 at 8:02 am

    Beautiful birds. Thanks for sharing!

  5. 5.

    Wag

    June 28, 2021 at 8:05 am

    Great photos!  Welcome to OTR!

  6. 6.

    marklar

    June 28, 2021 at 8:17 am

    That’s one Grand Ole Osprey!

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    stinger

    June 28, 2021 at 8:40 am

    I was actually trying to “count the wings” before I counted all the feet and re-read the caption on that top photo! Now I gotta know, did the first one scooch over? (Doubt there’d have been room anyway.)

    Thanks, Mactree!

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    June 28, 2021 at 9:11 am

    Mactree, I hope we see more of you here at OTR!

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    Miss Bianca

    June 28, 2021 at 9:39 am

    Hey, Mactree, do you live in Salida? I know there are some ospreys that like to nest by the ball fields over near the hospital – or, at least, they were there when I was living there! (waving from the other end of Bighorn Sheep Canyon).

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    JanieM

    June 28, 2021 at 9:44 am

    Thanks for the candid shots! It’s fun to try to sort out what’s going on in that first one.

    I love watching osprey hover above the lake across the road — such a distinctive pose.

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    WaterGirl

    June 28, 2021 at 9:57 am

    @JanieM: The first one is easy, they are playing twister!

  12. 12.

    Mactree

    June 28, 2021 at 10:04 am

    @Miss Bianca:  I do; and the Osprey are from there too. Many thanks to the blog, been a lurker from way back.

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    JanieM

    June 28, 2021 at 10:06 am

    @WaterGirl: LOL, yes, I think you’ve got it!

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    WaterGirl

    June 28, 2021 at 10:10 am

    @Mactree: Glad to see you here.  I wasn’t sure if you had seen my message letting you know that you would be up today.

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    Yutsano

    June 28, 2021 at 11:03 am

    SEAHAWKS!!!

    Ospreys are fun little raptors. Usually wherever there’s easy fish they’ll be around. Lots of fun if you can catch them hunting too!

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    J R in WV

    June 28, 2021 at 12:46 pm

    We spent a week at a friend’s cabin up the mountain and north of Cotopaxi some years back, real high altitude, wood stove, spring water, A-frame. We used the cabin as a base while we rock hounded all over that area, former gold mines, lead mines, up on Mt Antero.

    Once you are above 10,000 feet, you don’t realize it, but you are substantially stupid from lack of oxygen. When we came down the mountain in my little white Ranger PU truck, we realized how lucky we were to not have had any emergency which we needed to respond to intelligently.

    Beautiful country side. We had a snow storm our first exploring trip in mid-June. Rt 50 passes right through West Virginia.

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