Osprey (green DY) in flight after a dive for fish

Osprey (green DY) in flight after a dive for fish - Osprey
Rothiemurchus Fishery, Aviemore, Cairngorms National Park, Inverness-shire, Scotland (August 2011)

1/1600s, f4, EV -1 2/3, ISO 200
Taken at 8:45 am

For more information on this bird species see the following links:
Osprey / Internet Bird Collection
Osprey / Bird Forum
ARKIVE / Osprey Pandion haliaetus
BirdLife International / Osprey Pandion haliaetus
More information, including some tracking data, on Scottish Ospreys can be found on Roy Dennis' Highland Foundation for Wildlife website.

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