Holy Cow: Mohegan Lake Is Awesome

4/16/14
This just in:

From our neighbors Da Kepplah's, we get this photograph of "Ollie" the Mohegan Lake Osprey.  Greg caught this big guy eating a fish he effing scooped out of Mohegan Lake this afternoon at the top of the lake.  Mohegan Lake is so awesome. Look how big that fish is and how it's still alive, while Ollie eats it. Man, the circle of life is complete--at least up here on the hill.  Mohegan Lake represent!

Holy shit, the big bird is big; and eating a big fish.

Quick Draw

I've been blogging for almost 7 years now.  One thing I've learned is that it pays to be quick on the camera draw.  Two quick examples:

Here's a gentleman in a blue Chevy [?] full size pick up at about 5:25pm on 4/1/2013 (sadly not an April Fool's joke) dumping a sheet of plywood on the Shrub Oak Lake Estates beach.  That deserves a "boo, you suck."  I heard the sheet drop, saw him scurry to his truck and zoom off.  He didn't count on me a) being there and b) being so quick on the draw.  Do you recognize this truck? [Update 4/2/13: someone came by with a van and cleaned up the plywood.  Good on you.]

He's literally driving off in this pic, quickly.  That's the plywood he dumped, right center.

The second item, my friends, is an osprey I caught with my lens on Sunday morning .  It was huge, much bigger than the hawks I've seen around here.   Anyway, here's the video where it catches my eye. For reference, it mostly stays in the center or the frame.  You may need to replay it to see the whole flight; it ends landing on a branch where it eats a fish it had in its talons!  Apparently it's diet is almost exclusively fish. 

 

The next video is of the osprey eating its prey on the branch. Mohegan Lake is a pretty amazing place. Lots of fish in its waters, as we--and this osprey--know.

Below are some highly enlarged and zoomed in on photos.  I'm still excited about them though.  You can still see what a regal raptor the osprey is.