Dinner to go (6/10)

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Apparently, the osprey tired of us watching it eat, so it decided to eat out. It flew away with its fish. The image is just good enough to notice two things. First, the fish is missing its head, which the osprey has probably already eaten. Second, the osprey is displaying the way ospreys always carry fish while in flight; head first. It is an amazing thing, but no matter how they catch a fish and which direction a fish is when it is plucked out of the water, ospreys always align it so the fish is carried with the head in front and the tail behind. This helps the bird carry even a wiggling fish that weighs a lot more than the osprey does.

Written by Rex Trulove

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