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#Andy Woo #birds #nature #water
August 12, 2022
Grace Ebert
Picture © Andy Woo, distributed with permission
Ospreys, giant raptors with barbed claws and dense, oily plumage, feed nearly solely on fish and have been identified to fully submerge themselves in water whereas looking. An sudden shot by Andy Woo, nevertheless, catches the avian predator in a botched try because it scores the floor as a substitute of diving to retrieve its subsequent meal. “Though I could not work out what occurred on the time, wanting on the sequence I captured, it seems to me that the osprey tried to seize a fish from the water, missed, after which failed it will get sufficient to get again into the air shortly,” he tells Peta Pixel. The weird motion lasted lower than a second, sufficient time for the Olympia photographer to doc the act and the hen’s reflection on the water.
Woo is at the moment promoting prints of the short-lived slide, and you’ll find all the sequence on his Instagram.
#Andy Woo #birds #nature #water
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