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Beauty

I grew up fishing in areas where you would see a few of these every day.

Last year when I went back and fished the Indian River Lagoon, I saw DOZENS. It seems that most of the inland islands have been developed.

There are only a few that have been set aside as natural reserve (thanks to many battles betwixt the locals and the yankees)......all the birds concentrate there now.

So you can see MANY if you fish close to the reserved islands, but it seems there are less in the lagoon by large.

Jet, did you take the photo? Awesome pic either way!

Awesome, great and beautiful. We have an osprey nest in Newport Beach, in the in the Back Bay area, they had a picture of it in the OC Register last week...they are great creatures.

Charlie

I used to see these all over The Keys and South Florida, too . . .

http://www.dpreview.com/  . . .

There are some amazing photographers from all over the world that hang out on that site . . .

Great picture to go to bed by. BY.

sweet pic.

Ahh, the Seahawk!

I see them on my bike ride to Coronado fishing in Sandy Eggo bay. I'll stop and watch em till they nail a fish. X

I was expecting to see the Marine Corps newest helo/plane. The V22 Osprey...

Semper Fidelis

I was too but this is way kooler and they crash into the water on purpose. X

X, ya friggin' aristocrat!

We gotta do some fishing. I usually hit the ferry landing in Coronado, then move over to the dock that Peohe's is built on. There be some fair halibut in the sandy shallow areas. Of course, it'a all catch and release since the bay is so polluted.

Very Cool, echo . . .

Thanks for sharing . . .

Wow... they named a bird after a Bar in Manasquan, NJ ???

Low

Nice pic.

these birds were in real danger severl years back. Pestisides were making their egg shells very brital, and reproduction almost came to a stand still.

Hopefully they have it under control.

I saw my first one at cave run lake in Kentucky while turkey hunting on top of this big ass mountain. It landed in a bare tree right next to us. It was beautiful. It was funny because he knew something was not quite right but just couldnt put a feather on it?

He checked us out for several minutes then took off and sored across the valley.

Very beautiful!

v