This juvenile black-crowned night heron swooped down and snatched a large tilapia out of a pond in front of a house by the coast. Trouble is, the fish was a bit big and the heron struggled to swallow it. After working on it by the pond, the bird flew to the top of a tree where a strong wind added to its difficulties. It hopped over to a taller tree, which only made things worse, before setting down on the rocky shore nearby.
I saw the bird a few minutes later without the fish, but don’t know whether it finally managed to swallow it or gave up and ejected it. Either way it wasn’t a good day for the fish.
Posted in response to this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge, ‘Out of This World.’
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Wow Graham, that is really quite amazing! And just cool!
Sometimes we hold on to things that we really just need to let go of! 😁
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You should have been there. You could have saved him a lot of grief with that sage advice!
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😁
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Great photos.
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Wow, that bird was sure motivated by hunger and compelled to just eat it all! Amazing capture, Graham!
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I think it thought better of the struggle in the end.
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Fantastic shots!
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It was fun following the action. Too bad I missed the grand finale.
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Wow! Great series of photos!
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Thanks. And look at the spines on that fish. After a certain point there would have been no going back.
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