One of the most wonderful animals on Lovers Key are the Osprey (Pandion haliaetus). Everywhere that I have seen them osprey are truly magnificent. Here they are very accessible. They nest right along the beech, and you can see them up close: mating, brooding and eating. I took a short video of one devouring a fish in a tree, while desperate laughing gulls gathered and squawked beneath it.

You suddenly have the understanding that just as we see them as others at the end of horizon of comprehension; so they must view us. We are a distraction.

At Lovers Key they talk a lot to each other. And they have a birdlike call that doesn’t quite seem to belong to a big top of the food chain predator. In Figure 1, I have tried to capture that endless conversation. Here an osprey sitting on its nest calls out its presence to the others around it. Perhaps it speaks to the timelessness. Perhaps it is saying to us to get off my beach. Perhaps it is protesting the end of the endless.