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Green Heron Butorides striatus Goes Fishing | May 23, 2010 |
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Yesterday I watched as a green heron flew out to a tree stump island on Toftrees pond. It appeared to have something in its bill.
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A month or so previously, I saw a video clip of a green heron using bait to fish, and I wondered whether this green heron was behaving in a similar fashion.
And it was! I missed photographing the first successful strike, but the cooperative green heron moved to a new position and tried again.
The heron waved its bill with tidbit over the water, and the fish came to the heron (which I judged by the ripples in the pond).
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And then the green heron struck.
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I'm not sure what the heron caught, but it seemed content enough to swallow the whatever.
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Imagine: fishing with a built-in rod.
Photo note: I used a Pentax K200D, with the SMC 1000mm reflex lens, for a long sequence of photos taken on 22 May 2010. |