today while walking the shore of Florida Bay looking for invertebrates, i suddenly noticed an osprey in the water as i approached from the shore...it did not dive in while i was there... its head and neck were sticking out of the water, and its wings were held along the surface. first i thought maybe it was injured, and as i started to walk out towards where it was , it began to stir, eventually started flapping, and after more or less clumsily skimming the surface and kicking the water, it eventually flew low over the water to a semi- nearby mangrove island and landed in a mangrove tree. was this a bird that may still have been learning flight? is it unusual to see an osprey semi-submerged like that? seems like the bottom there was too shallow (and the water way too turbid) to be fishing
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