Mallard getting his grub on

[Mike Davies]

I realize this shot is not of a high quality and I won't bore you with the reasons for this but I was out earlier this week taking some photos of our recent snow and ran across this guy. I quickly switched lenses and caught a couple shots of him trying to down his dinner. I was surprised to see a Mallard eating such a large fish and it took him a couple of minutes to get it down. I thought it was an interesting shot just due to the size of his hard earned meal.



40D
100-400mm
F5.6
1/320
ISO 500
EC +1/3

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I've never seen this behavior, thanks for sharing!

[Paul Lagasi]

Unreal, never knew Mallards ate fish....though just vegetation tks Mike

[John Chardine]

Nor me. I'm going to check and see if my "duck-head" friends are familiar with this.