Osprey Getting Up Close and Personal

This Osprey, one of the ones that are very accustomed to me now, decided he would fly along a sand bank right at me.

 

It got within minimum focusing distance of my lens (4.5m) so I removed my eye from the eyepiece of the camera to see him with talons extended trying to land on the end of my 500mm lenshood! It just diverted at the last second but it was within arms length at that point. I even felt the wind from its wings as it then lifted up to go right over my head.

 

I so wish another photog had been around to get a photo of what happened.

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Uploaded on April 4, 2013
Taken on April 2, 2013