Great Kiskadee, Santa Ana NWR

Fishing is perhaps more accurate. Given that I have seen Kiskadees around water on every trip to South Texas, I should have made the connection, but it was not until this recent trip that I actually saw one catch a fish. That was at Edinburg Wetlands, and this bird, glowing in the early morning light, is at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, but the fishing behavior, once you are tuned into it, is obvious here as well. I suspect fish do not make up a large portion of the Kiskadee’s diet, but it must be a real metabolic bonanza when the bird catches one.

Sony HX400V at 1200mm equivalent field of view. Shutter preferred. 1/500th @ ISO 160 @ f6.3. Processed and cropped in Lightroom on my Lenovo Miix 2 Windows tablet.