I suppose birds spend much (most?) of their time hunting or eating. I decided to gather in one place some of the more interesting captures of birds with their food.
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Many of the photos on this page are a bit more "gruesome" but technically this one is eating. I thought I'd start out gently.
Great Egret near UCSC Farm.
Red-shouldered Hawk with a Jerusalem cricket taken at the intersection of Coolidge and Hagar on the UCSC Campus.
I took this in 2011 using a Canon point and shoot from the UCSC bike path on my way home from work.
Red-tailed hawk and unidentied small rodent.
Osprey with some type of eel. Taken along West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz.
Brown Pelican during a feeding frenzy along West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz.
Maybe this shouldn't be here since the bird dropped it, but ...
Blue Heron with a gopher in an open field near our house.
Hooded Merganser eating a crayfish in the Spring Street Quarry Pond.
Wimbrel at Natural Bridges State Beach
Cedar Waxwings near our house.
Oirignal caption:Aptly named, Acorn Woodpecker
Modifed per clarification from Linda Wener: "The acorn woodpecker is probably not eating the acorn at this time. I think the bird is actually hoarding acorns here. They stash acorns in dead snags during the fall and then return to eat the acorns in the winter. Acorn woodpeckers also eat sap and insects crawling around on the surface of trees or catch and eat insects in flight."
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