Great Blue Heron with Walking Catfish in mid-air!

Nikon F5, Nikkor 500mm AF-S f4, Nikkor 1.4xTC, SB26, aperture priority @5.6, 1/250 SS. matrix @ o comp. Kodak E100 VS.

The head of this relatively small Walking Catfish was flattened by the GBH before an attempt to swallow was made. Walking Catfish, like most catfish, have 3 sharp needle like spines, one on their dorsel fin and one on each of their pectoral fins. (I have seen GBH swallow even larger WC without any effort being made to flatten these spines. It always amazes me how they do it.) At any rate, I lucked out in catching this WC in mid-air just as the GBH did his "flip" down the hatch. Incidentally, the WC is one of the 28 exotic fish that are in the Everglades waters. Imported by tropical fish dealers, mostly from South America, as small albino fish, their offspring revert to their normal black/brown/gray colors. It is believed that either the dealers or owners threw unwanted WC into local waters and the rest is history.