Common Loon, Back Creek, Kennebunk ME

There is a Common Loon hunting at the mouth of Back Creek where it meets the Mousam. It has been there for the better part of a week now, patrolling and diving for crabs. I caught it here with a fresh caught crab, doing the crab toss thing to get it aligned for swallowing. I have several other shots in the sequence with the crab in different positions before the bird finally swallowed it. 🙂 The image makes me smile…which I guess shows little sympathy for the crab.

Nikon P900 at 1600mm equivalent field of view. 1/500th @ ISO 125 @ f6.3. Program with -1/3EV exposure compensation. Processed in Lightroom on my Surface Pro 3 tablet.