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Ardeola grayii
Saw this pond heron (in breeding plumage) fishing in the evening, or should I call snaking? He was shaking his head with the snake in its beak. Once the snake got lucky and got away but was caught again. Not sure if the snake is a keelback.
Seen near a marshland.
My other interesting spotting of this bird snacking and for more details on the bird: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/846...
Lat: 22.82, Long: 72.06
Spotted on Jul 9, 2012
Submitted on Jul 12, 2012
12 Comments
Thanks again Hemma!
awesome pics!
Thank you Yogesh and Carol. Luis, sadly it was the last day of the snake :'(
What happened next?
Whose got who. Great!!!
I never seen pond heron so beautiful before.Wow!!!
Thanks Nuwan, Atul, Emma, Antonio and Chief. Emma the colours on this one were amazing, he did gulp the snake :-) Chief, he did gulp with the tail first.
interesting...i ate the snake tail first instead head first?
great cache Satyen,gorgeous moment,congrats :)
the blue,green and yellow near the beak and eye is very pretty!! lovely heron.
He will probably gulp the snake down? have seen egrets gulping down cray fish.
what a spot , just amazing !
Great series !!