Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Plum Island, Massachusetts
Osprey is in the air above the salty pond, a piece of ocean hugged by grasses
where egrets and many others spend tranquil summers...
Cruising, hovering, with the steel focus on the pond...
then, in a matter of seconds, thrusts herself into the water,
and comes out with a fish...
Freezes my whole state.
And the bird is only doing what she must...
