re: #48 BigPapa

Did a quick search and it’s from Myrtle Beach SC and it’s an Osprey. In Fenwick Island Delaware, right next to Ocean City Maryland, we used to stay at an oceanside rental cottage one or two weeks a summer. There was always Osprey hunting right in front of us for a few hours a day.
They would glide and circle and then do a drop that increased in speed until they slammed into the water.
Then they would raise up out of the water and just SHAKE that water off.
Never saw one come up without a fish. Not one. For over a decade. Not. One.
And if you look at that video, Ospreys always fly with their prey head first. Aerodynamics.
Ospreys are engineers of air and space and beautiful to watch.
They would fly right over us back to the bays behind us where the nests were.
And then come back and impress us again.