Tight Fit by Linn Smith

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

20 Comments

gI Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 2:50 am
WOW FANTASTIC….
Kirk Jordan Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 6:03 am
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 Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 6:54 am
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 Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 7:32 am
Great shot thanks for the info.
Malta Photography Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 8:07 am
Pretty and interestingly sharp indeed.
Derek Dobbie Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Good capture of nature at work.
Pauline Jones Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 9:25 am
We keep plecos in our tropical fish tank; I’ve never seen one as big as that.
Mandy Kilpatrick Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Wow a nature shot like I have never seen! What action. Such an interesting photo that tells so much. Thank you!
wanda krack Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 10:59 am
What a wonderful catch, in more ways than one!
Michael Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 11:39 am
trusly brutal but in the same way REMARKABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paulo Silva Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
great photo, yes we keep plecos like that in fish tank anda i had one biger then that.
planet lover Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Great picture, great comments! Thank you all
Marie Dunphy Harding Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
It’s amazing how he can swallow this thing whole!
Chamika Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Excellent shot!
Katherine Lee Strassburg Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
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 Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Great catch for both the bird and yourself. Well done.
Cris Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Great capture for you and the Great Egret, too bad things don’t look like they will end well for the fish!
joey Says:
April 24th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
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 Says:
May 4th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Holy! Now THAT is what I call a catch!
mike Says:
May 15th, 2009 at 6:01 am
That is some big catch!