Thursday, 16th April 2009
Tight Fit
by Linn Smith
The long, sharp bill of the Great Egret is deadly accurate as it fits the freshly caught fish dead center before it swallows head first. Located on the shoreline of Lake Jesup in Seminole County, Florida.
Equipment: Canon EOS 5D
Linn Smith
Tight Fit by Linn Smith was photo of the day on Thursday, 16th April 2009. It is tagged Birds, Fish. You can leave a comment below.
23 Comments
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WOW FANTASTIC….
Kirk Jordan
What’s just as weird as the size of that sucker fish, is the green on the Egret’s bill. That seems really odd to me. Stupendous (sp?) photo.
Anurag
That’s a plecostomus which has mean, thick pointed spines!! I wonder how the egret will digest it. Amazing. Evev other predator fish avoid the pleco. Amazing shot.
Su
Great shot thanks for the info.
Malta Photography
Pretty and interestingly sharp indeed.
Derek Dobbie
Good capture of nature at work.
Pauline Jones
We keep plecos in our tropical fish tank; I’ve never seen one as big as that.
Mandy Kilpatrick
Wow a nature shot like I have never seen! What action. Such an interesting photo that tells so much. Thank you!
wanda krack
What a wonderful catch, in more ways than one!
Michael
trusly brutal but in the same way REMARKABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paulo Silva
great photo, yes we keep plecos like that in fish tank anda i had one biger then that.
planet lover
Great picture, great comments! Thank you all
Marie Dunphy Harding
It’s amazing how he can swallow this thing whole!
Chamika
Excellent shot!
Katherine Lee Strassburg
Wonderful shot of typical feeding behavior. According to Birds of Michigan by Ted Black & Gregory Kennedy, the green patch occurs during breeding plumage, so we don’t always see it. A friend took a series of photos in the 80′s showing a Great Blue Heron eating a HUGE fish–it balanced it on its chest, then centered it, finally swallowed it whole (took a while), then had to walk away because it was too heavy to fly! When you’re hungry, you eat what you can get…………
ann
Great catch for both the bird and yourself. Well done.
Cris
Great capture for you and the Great Egret, too bad things don’t look like they will end well for the fish!
joey
pretty awesome photo. and even more awesome is i live 2 minutes from lake jessup and thats pretty awesome you got that picture there
Kinan Jarjous
Holy! Now THAT is what I call a catch!
mike
That is some big catch!
Claire
Great Pic
Su
Tight fit is an apt title, great shot.
renee
excellent shot, great title.