Female Osprey loves bathing in the shallows to condition her feathers.

This female Australasian Osprey (Pandion haliaetus cristatus) lives on the eastern edge of Peel Inlet at Coodanup, about 60 kilometres south of Perth in Western Australia. She is a successful fish predator and mother, raising three chicks last breeding season. Ospreys often bathe to clean and condition their plumage - our female spent over twenty minutes drinking and bathing in the estuary before taking off.