This bird was sitting on a pole a long way out from the hide on the mudflats at Mai Po. However with the new monster lens and the help of a couple of tele-converters I got some pretty reasonable shots. He (or she) ate the fish from nose to tail, or should that be mouth as fish don't have noses as such, do they? "Noses run in our family", as my dear old dad used to say. And it was a fair chunk of meat, too. I took maybe 50 shots and deleted most but this was a definite "keeper".
The second bird is a Black drongo. Astute readers, if there be plural visitors to the site, may recall the Hair-crested drongo from Sai Kung. This is a close relative, also snapped at Mai Po - a rather ritzy thing he is too. Let's hear it for the drongo family.
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