{"id":11423,"date":"2013-11-30T06:44:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T13:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=11423"},"modified":"2026-02-08T07:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:53:25","slug":"an-osprey-just-floundering-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/11\/30\/an-osprey-just-floundering-around\/","title":{"rendered":"An Osprey Just Floundering Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OspreyOsprey with flounder over the Gulf – Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/750, ISO 160, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 116mm, natural light, Osprey caught the Flounder<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of my images make me laugh and this Osprey image with a flounder that weighs almost as much as the bird does make me laugh.<\/p>\n

I was photographing pelicans in the Gulf of Mexico with my friends Adrian and Bill at Fort De Soto County Park’s north beach<\/span><\/a> when I spotted an Osprey coming towards us with a wiggling flounder in its talons.<\/p>\n

The Osprey was flying surprisingly fast and I knew it was going to fly right over top of us. I just didn’t know how low and close it would be. If it had been any closer I wouldn’t have been able to focus on the bird and fish at all.<\/p>\n

I zoomed back as quickly as I could to 116mm and started firing away and as I did I\u00a0started leaning and almost fell on my back as the Osprey passed over my head.<\/p>\n

Adrian and I were laughing out loud and Bill was wondering if we got any good shots of the Osprey floundering with its prey over our heads.<\/p>\n

Me? I was just glad the Osprey didn’t drop that huge flounder on my head!<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Osprey photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n

It will ALWAYS be the Gulf of Mexico for me and no racist, misogynistic, malignant person will ever make me say any thing different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of my images make me laugh and this Osprey image with a Flounder that weighs almost as much as the bird does make me laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,25,704,466],"tags":[4004,4021,5132,4432,13781,4052,2396,4122,1130,173,4077,3992,6784,9977,4189,4106,4018],"class_list":["post-11423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-ospreys","tag-adult","tag-bird-photography","tag-coastal","tag-fish","tag-flatfish","tag-flight","tag-flounder","tag-flying","tag-food","tag-gulf-coast","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-osprey","tag-ospreys","tag-overhead","tag-pandion-haliaetus","tag-prey","tag-sky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t