Quite a Colorful Catch! by Rachel Bilodeau

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Added 28 May 2004
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Shot at the Montreal Botanical Gardens- this is a visitor heron that sometimes comes to the watery areas of the park - saw this heron in the reeds and watched him for a while- and suddenly he dunks into the water and in a split second is up again with this huge red fish which he swallowed in one big gulp - I clicked and clicked - camera was not fast enough for me and I only got one shot, but I got it! F6.3 @ 1/500, ISO:200, canon lens 75-300 IS USM, focla length: 185 mm; no exposure compensation, hand held.

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Brenda Loveless 27 Sep 2007

superb capture, Rachel...great shot!!!

Christine brand 23 Nov 2006

Wow! amazing...exhilarting, makes my blood rush reading the description...Most excellent work .

Gary Glass 28 Sep 2004

Nice shot Rachel, Fish is probably saying this is a crappy day for me,besides the headache..

Simone Reijenga 28 Sep 2004

great shot!!!

Peter Leahy 03 Jun 2004

super capture

Ian Topple 29 May 2004

Good thing you got that shot. It sounds like you need a lot of patience with these wildlife shots but none the less, you captured it really well. Its a little wierd though because it looks like the fish isn't exactly in its mouth. I mean obviously it is but too bad the fish wasn't in the middle of his mouth so it didn't look so awckward.