AWARDS: ENGLAND / WILTSHIRE / LAKE DISTRICT / WALES / SCOTLAND / COAST OF S.W. ENGLAND / COAST / STORMS / LAKES & MOUNTAINS / WINTER LANDSCAPES / DESERTS / ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY / BRITISH BIRDS 1 / BRITISH BIRDS 2 / BRITISH MAMMALS / BRITISH INSECTS / WORLD BIRDS / WORLD MAMMALS / NATURE
SADDLEBILLED STORK EATING FROG
Looking rather like cartoon characters, saddlebilled storks are large, charismatic birds of African wetlands. I found this one in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park probing mud for food. A fast shutter speed and precapture mode enabled me to freeze the decisive moment, revealing that its prey was small frogs.
F/5, 1/1,600th second, ISO 400
Accepted: Smethwick 2025
