ALAN BRANCH, Pelican fishing for its Seagull (Animal 2020)

A seagull flew down and landed on the back of a pelican. Immediately the seagull screeched and the pelican dipped its bill into the water searching for a fish. Up came his bill with a fish but the seagull missed out. Through all this the pelican was very calm so I suspect the seagull has landed on the back of this particular pelican before! I achieve the unusual angle for this shot as I was about 5 metres above the water on a dam near the Murray River mouth. I used a 200 mm prime lens on my Nikon D810.

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