This unlucky lizard was caught inside a bird’s mouth and became tangled horribly before it managed to escape and leave its tail behind.
Salah Baazizi, a 46-year-old Aʟɢᴇʀɪᴀn immigrant who now calls Orange County home and is an amateur nature photographer, took time away from his work as a software developer to photograph the magnificent supper.
At the Bolsa Chica Wildlife Conservancy in Southern California, Salah, who was watching from a distance of roughly 10 meters, captured the horrible picture of an egret munching on a lizard. The lizard struggled to get out of the egret’s jaws and eventually became impaled there.
He started taking wildlife photography seriously seven years ago, and in that time, he has become passionate about photographing birds in motion.
On this particular sunny, hot winter day, Salah saw an egret ʜᴜɴᴛing in some unusual spots before approaching and pursuing lizards. Egrets generally fish in marshes. He surmised that the lizards’ choice for open, sunny areas to regulate their body temperatures was influenced by the heat.
Egrets are expert stalkers who consume mostly fish, but also pretty much anything else that moves that they can get their beaks on. This comprises animals such as snakes, insects, worms, fish, rodents, birds, and rodents.
Source: https://dailylifeworld.com
