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Grey Heron with Lunch

By dewie    
I was in the two-storey hide at the LWT with a wildlife filmmaker. There was a heron about 40m away and it was continually being chased away by a coot and a female pochard. The Poachard had about 5 ducklings.

However, this was to no avail as the heron came back and plucked one of the ducklings from the water, before proceeding to fly across the lagoon past the hide where it went behind some reeds so I could not see it devour it.

Although sad to see, this is why the ducks lay so many eggs as they know that only a small percentage will survive due to predation by herons and gulls and foxes, and other reasons. It is how life is for them.

Hope you like it!

Oscar

Tags: Flying Food Flight Water Heron Eat Eating Duckling Grey heron Pochard Wildlife and nature Pochard duckling

Voters: saeidNL, LukeParkinson, KarenFB and 7 more

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Uploaded:
14 Jun 2010 5:54PM
Camera:
Nikon D300S
Lens:
sigma 50-500 f4-6.3
Location:
51.480724, -0.232199
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Comments


saeidNL 12 3 Netherlands
14 Jun 2010 6:03PM
Superb capture,
well done.
saeid
LukeParkinson 12 30 3 United Kingdom
14 Jun 2010 7:05PM
Good capture and well timed. Well done
KarenFB Plus
16 5.8k 184 England
14 Jun 2010 7:21PM
Oh!!! That is so sad!! Yes, I know it's nature. Sad You have managed to capture it very well though, the panning is brilliant and the Heron is beautifully sharp.
johnjones 12 England
14 Jun 2010 8:01PM
what a brill flight shot great detail spot on
jj
jonah794 12 1.7k 11 United Kingdom
14 Jun 2010 9:26PM
That's really sad to see Oscar, but as Karen said, nature must do what it must, and sadly this is one of the things. After all, for the herons it's not sad, if they didn't have it they would starve to death - and that's sad too Sad

Anyway, it's extremely well panned and sharp, and I think you've caught the moment extremely well.

Jonah
rontear Plus
19 23 9 England
14 Jun 2010 10:32PM
Superb nature, Oscar. Life. Ron.
dewie 12 9 United Kingdom
18 Jun 2010 5:19PM
Thanks for the comments, and especially to the Junior Team for the Junior Award Grin

Oscar

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