Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Loggerhead shrike 1, Dragonfly 0









I was driving into the parking lot at the fishing pier at Fort Desoto and noticed a strange looking bird sitting on the utility wire. I thought "Wow, that's a loggerhead shrike." You don't see them very often in this area. I drove over to it and parked and got out of my car with my camera. He was holding some kind of dragonfly. He seemed to enjoy having me watch him eat his catch. After he gulped down the dragonfly he cleaned his beak on the wire and then flew away.

2 comments:

  1. Awesome captures! You're quite the ornithologist if you saw that bird and thought "that's a loggerhead shrike'. I would have been online researching for hours! Very cool.

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