JUST heard, from a 'neighbor' whom I don't know, that there ARE OSPREYs here!!!

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1. My brother came to visit from up north.

On the golf course yesterday, an osprey circled the pond behind my friend. I pointed it out just before it dived into the water and extracted a catfish.
I told my brother I paid the osprey for the performance.
Today, across the pond from my condo, an osprey settled on an old cypress branch. His weight dislodged the branch, and from my recliner, I watched his fall for a second and a half, and his relaxing of talons to release the branch. He then flew over my window.
The day before my brother flew in, a pileated woodpecker, meandered up a palm tree outside my patio.
I used to get out my camera, but the bird action out my window is idyllic.
We have several osprey, sand hill cranes, wood storks, hooded mergansers, great blue herons, yellow crested night herons, spoonbills, black tipped storks, egrets, green herons, ibises, muscoveys, a panoply of ducks that visit our pond surrounded by cypress, various palms, oaks, magnolias and vegetation that I don't know the names.
This. In Tampa.