Great Heron Piercing The Head Of an Eel For a Hefty Meal

            My morning walk at the Orlando Wet Land, this morning, I saw this Great Heron going for a meal. With a single stroke, of this eel head, the eel was pretty much dead. Soon after, he swallowed it whole. It is amazing to see the precision of the Great Heron. A close look of his bill, at the largest photo size, one can see the bill pierced the head of the eel delivering quick death. There were a group next to me with Binoculars. They stood in awe seeing this predator and prey scene unfolding. A girl approached me to see if I post my photos on the Web. I gave her my Flickr URL. 

A stunning timing and precision by this Great Heron, made my morning walk worth it. I ended up walking around 4 miles and this unfolded right around the 2.5 miles. My Samsung watch keeps tap on my health, my cycling and my walks and so I checked to see at what miles in my walk, this took place.

This was made possible with the 100-500m X 2x Extender. At 1000 mm, the bird was brought into reach :-)

I changed the text from snake to eel. Thanks for David Lawrence and Don Berthiaume for pointing out the catch is an eel and not a snake.

Taken in: United States / Florida / Christmas (show map)

Taken on: December 23, 2023

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