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In footage that soon went viral on Twitter Thursday, a large bird was seen carrying a shark over stunned beach-goers in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
The bizarre video was shot by Tennessean Ashley White from the 17th floor of an apartment building where she was staying, and originally shared by Tracking Sharks on Twitter last week.
https://www.sfgate.com/weird/article/Bird-plucks-an-alarmed-shark-from-the-ocean-15382764.php
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msongs
(67,193 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)MLAA
(17,163 posts)Some crazy stuff happening!
essme
(1,207 posts)nt
Hekate
(90,189 posts)Amazing sight.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)..............
Demovictory9
(32,323 posts)essme
(1,207 posts)From Myrtle Beach......Osprey are pretty common. We saw one a couple of weeks ago over Lake Norman, near Charlotte
Quixote1818
(28,903 posts)Hugin
(32,778 posts)It makes a difference.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist a reference to Monty Python's "Holy Grail". )
Good eye.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)If you dont know the song
dont listen to it
May contain ear worm
tblue37
(64,979 posts)Trailrider1951
(3,409 posts)Remember those raptor-cams with the eagles in Iowa? Babies will eat good tonight!
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)csziggy
(34,120 posts)I was watching the Savannah Skidamore Osprey nest regularly and their youngsters fledged two weeks ago. They had hatched April 21:
First one fledging:
This guy does a lot of bird photography in Florida and has a great collection of osprey stills and videos:
Trailrider1951
(3,409 posts)They may be fledging age, but I'll bet that Mom and Dad still supply the bulk of their food at this time. After they've gotten used to their wings, hunting/fishing lessons will begin....and so it goes....
csziggy
(34,120 posts)Last week the red shouldered hawks that live on our farm had one, maybe two babies fledge. One sat outside the house on a tree thirty feet away and screamed all day. We never actually saw the parents feed him, but he sure made enough noise! Yesterday I heard one on the other side, stepped out on the front porch to see if I could get a picture. The damn bird flew at about twenty feet above the ground, twenty feet in front of me, so fast I couldn't lift the camera to get a picture.
I'm not sure if there was just the one - we have heard screaming back and forth in two or three different locations over the past week. It could be one youngster and two parents, or two youngsters and one parent at a time.
We've watched this red shouldered family for forty years. They used to perch on the fence line next to the barn. In the mornings when we went in to feed the horses, the mice and wrens would dart out and the red shoulders would get breakfast. They'd bring their babies along to learn the routine so we'd see three or four of the hawks lined up along the fence.
wiggs
(7,788 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)The tail does not look like any shark we have. Here in the gulf anyway. Plus the Dorsal fins are all wrong. Because it looks like there are fins rather than one large dorsal fin. And the larger fin is too far posterior on the the back for a shark.
And Ive caught sharks small enough for an Osprey to carry. Their skin is like Armor. Cant see an osprey grabbing one. Maybe an Eagle.
Im thinking Mackerel. Ive caught hundreds of them. In the gulf I would say Spanish Mackerel but I think they have other ones in the Atlantic.
That is always cool to see. I was fishing in the gulf in the heat for 4 hours without catching a fish. On a kayak. Paddling back to the truck when a Bald Eagle swooped down not 50 yards from me and caught a maybe 17 inch spotted sea trout, my target species. Then flew to a sandbar I had to paddle by and start to eat it. Felt like he was mocking me!
Only thing cooler is seeing dolphins working as a team to corral mullet. That a memory you dont forget. If you love nature.
essme
(1,207 posts)right now. They come every summer---
Osprey are common up here- see that black and white on the bird? It's an Osprey. The only eagles you can see in around here are balds and occasional goldens--- neither have that distinctive black and white coloring.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Its always cool to see.
Do you have any Macks besides Spanish? I know further up along the coast they have a different kind.
We have Spanish, Kings and down south Cero. Lots of people dont like them, but grilled the day you catch them they are hard to beat. Oh, and make the best sushi ever. My wife does the happy dance when we catch them because it means mackerel Poke bowl.
Have a nice Independence Day.
onethatcares
(16,133 posts)while working I happened to look up just as a hawk of some type grabbed a Mourning Dove out of the sky. Feathers everywhere but the hawk never slowed down with its' entree.
Another time, while having happy hour in my back yard , a dove was being chased by a different hawk.Low and fast would be an understatement on their movements.