Mono Monday Birds

I have bene putting off doing posts with photos of birds as I did a lot of them, but when I got this shot of the Osprey Nest and the parents with their two young ones, which when I edited it I felt it worked best in Mono

I thought why not do some more bird photos in Mono for a Mono Monday post

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The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor reaching more than 60 cm (24 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts

Ospreys usually mate for life

I am not sure how old the chicks are but I think it must be a few weeks there getting quite big now

Next up is a heron flying by one morning when I was walking out to Palmers Island

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And here is another Osprey, this is not one of the two in the first photo as this photo was taken at Silvershell beach in Marion.

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And a shot of a seagull as it is about to head into the water, what I liked about this one is how it kinf of looks as if it is admiring its reflection in the water

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and finishing off with this duck by the pond in Buttonwood park, I do know from my walk with the Audubon society in the park one day that this is a common duck

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