I often see birds nick each other's catch, like kites, or gulls, but this was a new one on me.
I watched this pair of storks for around an hour, one of them fishing. It would find a fish in the water then take it to land, where it would drop it, and the poke it, and finally eat it. But the result of this - in the stork eat fish world - is that other birds would steal its meal! I watched as a small Egret pinched a tasty morsel, and then this happened. See the sequence.
OK, so far, so good, stork gets little fishy onto dry land.
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Ahhhh, what's that that made him jump? see the small bird in the grass in front of him?
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what is that....is it....a kingfisher.....a white breasted kingfisher?
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WITH MY LUNCH!!!! squaaaaaaaaawrk, and wing flap......his size did not help him now. Quick and agile the kingfisher was going, going, gone.
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oh, damn, there goes my fish!
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That really ruffled his feathers...
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One thing that is incredible is I could not have got that sequence even a few years ago...with cameras now up to 16-20 frames a second it meant I could get 4 images of a speeding, darting kingfisher. It was all over so fast.....for both the stork and myself. Great fun.