This Great Blue Heron caught a bright orange goldfish in the Vassar Farm Pond just before I rode past, spotted the scene, and fumbled my camera out of the underseat bag.
The heron hurked the fish down, with the abrupt right-angle bend in its neck marking the fish’s current location:
A bit of wiggling & jiggling put the meal in the right place and the bird relaxed:
A postprandial flight around the pond apparently settled the fish:
It landed on a snag a few dozen feet from where it started, then proceeded to look regal:
Those things really do look like pterodactyls in flight!
I knew you were old… but wow! You remember flying pterodactyls?
We’d sit alone and talk
and watch a ‘dactyl
making lazy circles in the sky.
But they made such a mess until we installed Ptero-Be-Gone spikes in all the tree ferns …