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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!