Little grebe, big fish

BrentC · Mar 4, 2018

Unfortunately had to crop the hell out of this one.

Little grebe, big fish by Brent Cameron, on Flickr

zombiesniper · Mar 4, 2018

Very nice.

Still amazes me the meal some birds can put away.

WesternGuy · Mar 4, 2018

Nice capture. Did it manage to swallow the whole thing?

WesternGuy

bulldurham · Mar 5, 2018

I would bet he swallowed the whole thing and could likely have swallowed one half again as big as this one. They have no teeth to chew or tear apart their prey, so swallowing whole is the name of the game. Like Zombie's observation and my own, they can suck down stuff that you'd make book on them not getting past their beak.

BrentC · Mar 5, 2018

zombiesniper said:
Very nice.

Still amazes me the meal some birds can put away.

Especially a little thing like this grebe.

BrentC · Mar 5, 2018

WesternGuy said:
Nice capture. Did it manage to swallow the whole thing?

WesternGuy

I am pretty sure he did. After I took this shot his body turned so all I got was his backside and couldn't see much but it looked like he was a least trying to swallow it.