Civilian Aviation

On Friday I went to Duxford in the afternoon for the Puma farewell but before that I went to RSPB Fowlmere about 4 miles away from Duxford. I saw quite a bit of wildlife but the most impressive bit was watching a heron fishing about 40m from the hide and seeing it catch and eat a pike, here is a sequence of my photos that I took....

gotcha...
heron and pike fowlmere 27-03-2025 3560 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

heron and pike fowlmere 27-03-2025 3571 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

heron and pike fowlmere 27-03-2025 3582 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

turning it head first
heron and pike fowlmere 27-03-2025 3627 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

a bit of a mouthful
heron and pike fowlmere 27-03-2025 3637 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

it then turned the pike round and tried again...
heron and pike fowlmere 27-03-2025 3653 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

the tail about to disappear (this was a screen grab after I switched to video for a moment
heron and pike fowlmere 27-03-2025 3664-T by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

digesting...
heron fowlmere 27-03-2025 3665 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

and 10 minutes later it was hunting again, this time all it caught was a frog..
heron fowlmere 27-03-2025 3682 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

a pretty lethal fisherman!
thanks for looking, C&C welcome
Andy

Stunning shots Andy of one of nature's true fishermen, well done mate. I've been out with my new R7 not sure about posting the shots thought

Fabulous captures! That took some swallowing.

Never been but will try to fit in with a Duxford visit.

Stunning photos Andy. An awesome piece of natural history to capture.