Laurence Griffiths
Active Member
I have only been taking photos of birds for the past two years or so and using the Merlin app to help me identify the birds. I have seen and photographed most of the birds in my local area, but I can't remember ever having seen (or noticed) an Osprey. Last Friday, on my local camera club's "Coffee & Camera" walk across the low tide causeway-like sandbank across to King Island, I saw this large bird (which I didn't recognise) flying past. I already had my camera set for bird (Bird recognition switched on, very high shutter speed) and so I flung up the camera and trusted on luck. For once in my life, I found the Oly 100-400mm lens to be a bit short and I had to crop the image quite a bit.
But this is what I got..... My first Osprey (or at least that is what Merlin tells me it is). Just a pity it was flying away from me. But I suppose you can't have everything. Even the greyish sky was the result of a not-quite-burnt-off mist.
But this is what I got..... My first Osprey (or at least that is what Merlin tells me it is). Just a pity it was flying away from me. But I suppose you can't have everything. Even the greyish sky was the result of a not-quite-burnt-off mist.