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I love those impromptu up-close and personal sightings that we get from time to time.
I had taken my younger brother down to Nickerson State Park a few years after our father's death and wanted to show him why we enjoyd heading there year after year for a weekend fishing trip.
We were fishing one of the smaller ponds in the park when I heard the trill of a resident osprey and had recently dispatched a sunfish (they are way too numerous in this pond) and had tossed it out as food for the local birds. As the bird caught sight of the floating sunfish, it made its diving approach. I told my brother to keep his eye on the floating fish, at which point the osprey swooped down, picked the fish off the water and flew back to its roost.....all within 15 feet of our jonboat.
I then turned to my brother and said "You won't see that in the city!"
Now when I kayak on the local rivers and ponds, all just outside the route 128 belt, I see that stuff with increased regularity.
Man, you can't beat the great outdoors!
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