Bird Watching: Raising Aussie Osprey. Number 2, 1 by MargaretK

MargaretK wrote:
Just over a week ago I went to the lower part of the embankment to try to get some shots of the female, who'd had a bath and was preening herself on a branch of a tree next to the tree they have their nest on and probably less than 20' from where I was. I was making a racket as I dislodged rocks and went skidding down part of the embankment (glad there were't other photgraphers around for that little performance).

I didn't stay there long as I was trying to shoot at an almost unworkable angle, standing on one leg and leaning at a precarious angle whilst holding the 300mm lens in one hand and steadying myself by grasping a dangerously brittle bit of dead wood, wasn't sustainable. But, you can see she's looking straight at me (and probably laughing) and just continued preening herself.