Highlight of the day!

After spotting this Osprey atop a telephone pole at the edge of Bolinas Lagoon, I barrel rolled out of my friend's moving car into a ditch to get a few shots. The resulting build up of traffic on the road drew the bird's attention and it decided to relocate. I would have felt terrible if it abandoned its meal but it took the fish and I ended up with some lovely pics. Still, disturbing a bird in any way always leaves me a little unsettled.

Flying away calling. I later saw the bird soaring north of the lagoon with its headless cargo.

Back at Sutro Baths, the male RT kited above the pines, dove down into them, and we found him tilting forward on a branch eyeing the ground in front of us.

He took a few seconds to commit himself and dove down into the grass a few feet in front of us with great force, crunching into the ground in a mass of feathers. He quickly took off again with a large rat.

Here he dines while people pass by unaware.