Working For Your Breakfast

It's a rough morning when you have to struggle with your own breakfast.
This egret plucked a fresh and feisty eel out of the salt marsh at low tide this morning and it took him a good ten minutes to wrangle the wriggling snack down. But the hard work paid off and he did eventually manage just fine.
Although, I expect that eel has to be alive for a little while anyway in the bird's stomach which must be an odd feeling.