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While I was at the pond shooting wildlife, I saw this scene unfold. This Great Blue Heron flew in and grabbed one of the little baby ducklings right our from un...
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While I was at the pond shooting wildlife, I saw this scene unfold. This Great Blue Heron flew in and grabbed one of the little baby ducklings right our from under the mothers clutch. (Note the mother duck at the left of the picture.) The mother duck tried to fight him off, but to no avail. He flew off with it down to the end of the pond where he killed the duckling with his beak, and then swallowed it whole.
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cameraCanon EOS-1D Mark III

settings Aperture f/5.6 ISO 800 Shutter 1/500 

upload_dateFeb, 2011

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Jaw Dropping
MGNasser Joecas kmlmlmnn SFalagario_photos donanzinger chriszhao dartotheren +1
Absolute Masterpiece
Bigmatt skyglider63 1rogerduke Leah_ abijur tago666 viewdes +1
Top Choice
lamobeus sunilshah kasper williepowell
Magnificent Capture
rmr731 daydreamsbymary0710
Superb Composition
barbarabrock mylene_ralph
All Star
PSJPhotography
Superior Skill
1Photogal
25 Comments |
Nripen Kalita
 
Nripen Kalita February 21, 2011
Hello! I am happy to see you here in ViewBug.. Just yesterday I had thought about inviting you to this photo-sharing site.
Welcome.. And thank you!
redwriter Platinum
 
redwriter February 21, 2011
Great shot, perfect timing.
snapfoto50
 
snapfoto50 April 11, 2011
THIS IS A GREAT SHOT..ITS CALLED DEFENDING YOURSELF..LOL..NICE COLOR, YOU MANAGED TO CAPTURE THE PHOTO JUST AT THE RIGHT TIME..WONDERFUL JOB..
photosue50
 
photosue50 October 08, 2011
Love this, great timing
Duff
 
Duff February 06, 2012
Wow What Timing you have! Tremendous Action shot! Heartbreaking but a fact of Life.
CraigWest
 
CraigWest April 12, 2012
Stunning capture!
KarenRoberts
 
KarenRoberts May 21, 2012
Oh poor baby duck..Momma is gorgeous!
daydreamsbymary0710 Platinum
 
daydreamsbymary0710 March 18, 2013
Great capture! Sad for the momma duck! :)M
deboragardiman
 
deboragardiman March 23, 2013
the law of life...Great document!!!
akhtarkhan
 
akhtarkhan March 26, 2013
Outstanding and amazing capture......Lucky you!
rmr731 Platinum
 
rmr731 March 26, 2013
It's an incredible capture! But oh so sad!
anandp
 
anandp March 27, 2013
wow
chriszhao
 
chriszhao March 27, 2013
this is absolutely incredible !!
CB1985
 
CB1985 April 04, 2013
Wow, Incredible Capture... I've been lucky enough to see probably hundreds of Great Blue Herons throughout my life - but I've never seen anything like this before.
donanzinger PRO
 
donanzinger April 05, 2013
Amazing shot! You have some fantastic images in your VB galleries.
SammyNJM
 
SammyNJM April 29, 2013
that's soo sad! but i like the photo :p
hikingmaniac
 
hikingmaniac May 03, 2013
again, this is a nice collage, you have some skills, but when you duplicated the background around the mother duck, you can see the fragments.
kasper Ultimate
 
kasper May 04, 2013
Wow, great timing.
SFalagario_photos
 
SFalagario_photos May 05, 2013
Wow what a scene! You captured it perfectly. Poor ducky tho. Ive never seen a black and white duck like that, where was this taken?
PSJPhotography
 
PSJPhotography May 30, 2013
What a sad story, but made for a great picture.
mylene_ralph
 
mylene_ralph July 08, 2013
Unbelievable capture!
caveman
 
caveman July 27, 2013
FANTASTIC SHOT
MelissaSword
 
MelissaSword July 27, 2013
Incredible and emotional, such is nature.
1rogerduke
 
1rogerduke July 28, 2013
I thought they only ate fish.....learn something new everyday. Awesome capture
barbarabrock Platinum
 
barbarabrock December 11, 2013
Phenomenal shot.

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