Predator

These lovely birds are fierce predators. This one has a small fish in its graceful bill. It spent several minutes thrashing it in the water, raising it up, thrashing it again until is swallowed it down.

 

This one is in non-breeding plumage. This week there were both buff and winter plumage birds. The buff birds were in pairs, the others were alone.

 

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