We're Having Fish Tonight!

This is what I actually saw today - live. Not a Discovery Channel Bird Show, but a Fish Hawk - an Osprey, diving for dinner. I was outside painting and woosh here comes this giant bird of prey swooping down into the lake and snatching a fish. And it was less that thirty yards away. It appeared that the bird actually dove into the water and struggled somewhat to reverse its thrusters to get airborne again. Amazing to me was how fast it dove and how hard it struggled to get back into the air with its catch. Very cool for sure.

Uh, obviously I did not take the above picture. I borrowed it from the BLM.