The young Loons are big eaters. Here Dad races in to present a minnow to the chick. They do this ten to twenty times a day and the chicks grow very quickly.

At sunrise on Marco Island Florida this Snowy Egret was going about his own business catching minnows and flipping them like popcorn. What a routine.

Father Black Skimmer has just returned from fishing to bring a minnow to his new chick. This one is an only child so will be well fed.

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A Green heron enjoying minnows, one after the other.

Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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A Great Egret flipping a small minnow into position for swallowing. Photo taken at Ridgefield NWR.

This Reddish Egret gave me a nice pose just after nabbing a minnow.

Juvenile with minnow

Male with a minnow

A Great Heron with a minnow in the mangrove marsh. When the water gets shallow, the wading birds in the Ten Thousand Islands get all of the small fish they can eat.

Norfolk

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Hunting for minnows at our front shoreline. Isle Lake Alberta

During courtship the male will offer food to the female.

Isle Lake Alberta

Green heron, Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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Great Blue Heron with fathead minnow, Suamico, Wisconsin USA

cropped in from full frame just a tad for comp

I’ve spotted a few Least Bitterns, but they haven’t given me a shot. This one was busy hunting and staying in the open until it got its minnow, after which it promptly disappeared back into the reeds. They are a favorite target in large part because of the challenge they present. They are pretty too! (Ixobrychus exilis) (Sony a1ii, 400mm lens, f/2.8, 1/1600 second, ISO 1000)

Everybody loves a buffet.

This Mink has been visiting the small open ditch north of Mud Lake to feed on the thousands of minnows that call the water home. It has found a couple of places to shelter, and then either visits the edge of the water or slips under the partial ice, emerging with fish each time.

Given the fact that the small area of open water is literally full of minnows- someone told me a friend had identified them as Flatheads - it is more like visiting a smorgasbord than hunting. I could reach into the water with a bare hand and pull out a dozen, I am sure.

This is the area that the Robins and perhaps the Hermit Thrush have used for their protein source. Watching the birds fishing is pretty neat, but the Mink knows what it is doing, and is an efficient mustelid hunting machine.

Sadly work has once again taken over, and I have been in Montreal enduring long days. That has prevented me from trying to secure an image in decent light. The overcast skies and snowy setting are a challenge with the Mink.

Dining on minnows at Hermitage park.

Juvenile Green Heron with minnow at Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive

Young male with a minnow

Icelandic arctic tern

Observed this very unusual and interesting behaviour!

There were thousands and thousands of minnows in a small opening in the stream.

See description by Peter Simpson:

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Mud Lake, Ottawa.

Kings Lynn

Norfolk

They are so fast swallowing the minnow that if it wasn't for the kelp this shot wouldn't have been clicked.

Male Kingfisher

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In the canal at Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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Continuing to wander aimlessly through my thousands of photos. This shot was taken 14 years ago along the shore of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park. Just some minnows swimming around in the shallow water among multi-colored rocks.

Male Kingfisher

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This Little Blue Heron is doing the Chassahowitzka Shake to get the weeds off of its meal.

Lucky catch.

Edmonton Alberta

Gone fishing. Ice still on the middle of the ponds.

Edmonton Alberta

boat livery in the Adirondacks. Pentax stuff.

I watched this great egret fishing yesterday. Caught herself a minnow and it went down in a flash

A Great Egret hunting while we were on a walk last weekend. He was very skilled at grabbing these minnows one after another and rarely missed a strike.

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I was lucky the other day at Green Cay and got some pictures of this male Belted Kingfisher working the far north side of Green Cay Wetlands. It wasn’t until I got home and saw that in one series he had a small minnow. Kingfishers buck the trend and it is the female that sports the red belt across her chest. Most of them are migratory here in South Florida and I’m happy to see them back in Florida for the season. Unfortunately, they breed farther north. (Ceryle alcyon) (Sony a1, 200-600 @600mm, f/6.3, 1/2500 second, ISO 2500)