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Pike eating Ducks???

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Posted by stewart canham on April 25, 2006 at 4:34 PM
thought that you might like to see a role reversal, I have heard of Pike eating ducks,but never a cormorant eating a Pike , and he did swallow it in the end phttp://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h290/hooklink/corm2.jpgike................
Posted by Justin on April 25, 2006 at 4:50 PM
Amazing what these birds will tackle :eek: .Guess he won't be going hungry for a while.
Well captured image and welcome to the forum. :cool:
Posted by stewart canham on April 25, 2006 at 4:55 PM
thanks Justin, there is a sequence of five pictures of the whole event, but this one says the most I think...............
Posted by Philip Kirkham on April 25, 2006 at 5:01 PM
Hello Stewart
That's some catch, by both of you! I really like action shots of nature, they always tell a story.
Welcome to the forum too. Just for future reference, try to keep your images 720 on the longest side and no more than 200k in size.
Best wishes
Phil :toast: :toast:
Posted by Major Gilbert on April 25, 2006 at 5:21 PM
Hello Stewart great looking capture.
It just makes me feel choked at the thought of it downing this thing.

Major. :toast:
Posted by John Chapman on April 25, 2006 at 5:35 PM
Hi Stewart
what a mouthful.
John
Aberdeen :toast:
Posted by Dave Courtenay on April 26, 2006 at 3:18 AM
I think this just goes to show what these birds are capable of taking and the devistation they can cause to a fishery, It looks a little soft around the birds head but certainly tells a story
Posted by Tim Munsey on April 26, 2006 at 3:24 AM
Blimey, did it really win? Wow, that's some eating machine.

Great capture. By the way your website link needs some sorting.

:toast:

Tim
Posted by PhilH on April 26, 2006 at 3:30 AM
Amazing, a little soft but the action and interest counter that.... welcome :wavey:

:toast:
Posted by Philip Kirkham on April 26, 2006 at 3:58 AM
Hello Stewart
I have ammended my previous posting which now gives the correct posting sizes - my humble apologies.:redface:
Best wishes
Phil
Posted by Rob Ashton on April 26, 2006 at 4:46 AM
Welcome Stewart.

That is definately "eyes bigger than belly" shot. :wink:

Well caught action.

Rob :toast:
Posted by Helge Sorensen on April 26, 2006 at 4:55 AM
Hi Stewart, it's a fantastic moment you have captured here. To me this is really what Nature Photography is all about. Congratulations with a memorable photo :toast:
Posted by writepic on April 26, 2006 at 6:20 AM

fantastic. try selling it to a fishing magazine. sure it will sell.

mark
Posted by stewart canham on April 26, 2006 at 1:29 PM
wow!! thanks for all the feed back, and friendly comments, the reason the shot may seem a bit soft is that the bird was about 150yds away from me, and I use a d200 with a 300mm afs 2.8 lens and a 1.7 tc, so I guess it was streaching it a bit...................
Posted by Rob Howard on April 26, 2006 at 4:37 PM
Hi Stewart,

Welcome to the forum.

I have looked at this image two or three times now and I still can't believe what I am seeing!!

It is a great record/behavoural shot.

Well Done

Regards

Rob
Posted by Kevin Lewis on April 29, 2006 at 1:31 PM
The cormorant was very ambious lol. Great NH image and without the image no one would believe you lol