Breakfast

I was walking to work last week when I saw this heron strolling along

the edge of the local creek, looking for fish to eat. I stood quietly

in the shadows and he didn't notice me for a bit. He suddenly cocked

his head as though he heard something in the brush, and in a flash he

had this mouse. He flipped the mouse around, dipped it into the creek

to wash it off, and then swallowed it whole... And I didn't even know

heron's ate mice...

I'm a little distracted by the background and wish it was less in focus. Otherwise, a great composition. I'm drawn to the bright yellow eye and follow the beak down to the mouse.

Poor mouse, wonderful shot.

As somone pointed out to me, this "mouse" is actually a "vole". Of course, a vole is also called a "field mouse" or "meadow mouse".