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Demovictory9

(32,323 posts)
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 06:28 PM Jul 2020

bird plucks shark from ocean

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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bird plucks shark from ocean (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jul 2020 OP
shark is hang gliding nt msongs Jul 2020 #1
A sharknado spinoff! soothsayer Jul 2020 #2
Holy moly! MLAA Jul 2020 #3
That's an Osprey with a Spanish Mackerel essme Jul 2020 #4
Thanks. That raptor has strong talons: look at that fish wiggle! Hekate Jul 2020 #6
Good eye! Thanks. KY_EnviroGuy Jul 2020 #7
you are the first to say its not a shark after million of views Demovictory9 Jul 2020 #8
We live in NC....not far essme Jul 2020 #11
Thanks for pointing that out. nt Quixote1818 Jul 2020 #10
Atlantic or Pacific Osprey? Hugin Jul 2020 #22
Now I have that baby shark tune in my head lunasun Jul 2020 #5
Nice big meal for the bird. nt tblue37 Jul 2020 #9
He or She could be feeding hungry hatchlings Trailrider1951 Jul 2020 #12
Likely is this time of year...nt Wounded Bear Jul 2020 #13
They'd most likely be close to fledging by now csziggy Jul 2020 #14
Very cool! Thank you for posting these Trailrider1951 Jul 2020 #15
Yeah, the fledglings are still needy csziggy Jul 2020 #17
Giant victory or end times? nt wiggs Jul 2020 #16
I don't think it is a shark. GulfCoast66 Jul 2020 #18
There are tons of Spanish Mackerels on the SC coast essme Jul 2020 #19
Yeah, it's obviously an osprey. GulfCoast66 Jul 2020 #21
bird story onethatcares Jul 2020 #20

essme

(1,207 posts)
11. We live in NC....not far
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 09:05 PM
Jul 2020

From Myrtle Beach......Osprey are pretty common. We saw one a couple of weeks ago over Lake Norman, near Charlotte

Hugin

(32,778 posts)
22. Atlantic or Pacific Osprey?
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 09:46 AM
Jul 2020

It makes a difference.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist a reference to Monty Python's "Holy Grail". )

Good eye.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
5. Now I have that baby shark tune in my head
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 06:35 PM
Jul 2020

If you don’t know the song
don’t listen to it
May contain ear worm

Trailrider1951

(3,409 posts)
12. He or She could be feeding hungry hatchlings
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 09:19 PM
Jul 2020

Remember those raptor-cams with the eagles in Iowa? Babies will eat good tonight!

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
14. They'd most likely be close to fledging by now
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 09:40 PM
Jul 2020

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)
15. Very cool! Thank you for posting these
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 09:51 PM
Jul 2020

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)
17. Yeah, the fledglings are still needy
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 10:31 PM
Jul 2020

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.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
18. I don't think it is a shark.
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 11:03 PM
Jul 2020

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 I’ve caught sharks small enough for an Osprey to carry. Their skin is like Armor. Can’t see an osprey grabbing one. Maybe an Eagle.

I’m thinking Mackerel. I’ve 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 don’t forget. If you love nature.



essme

(1,207 posts)
19. There are tons of Spanish Mackerels on the SC coast
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 07:54 AM
Jul 2020

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)
21. Yeah, it's obviously an osprey.
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 09:43 AM
Jul 2020

It’s always cool to see.

Do you have any Mack’s 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 don’t 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)
20. bird story
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 08:04 AM
Jul 2020

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.

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