Bird Bites
Birds spend a lot of time shopping for meals, eating left-overs, and snacking. Some, like eagles and ospreys, look for fresh, grab-and-go fish while vultures scan for whatever is dead, and smaller birds whoof down bugs.

Eagles
Ask photographers how they shoot eagles, and their answer is likely to be, “early.” Then, when you see an eagle slowing in flight, steady your telephoto lens (tripod helpful), burst-shoot and pan with the bird as it dives, snatches a fish, pushes to take off, and makes its way to a nearby tree to devour its prey while watching you take photos.
Vultures
Turkey Vultures (the redheads) smell carrion — a rotten-eggs odor — while Black Vultures spot a meal in open areas often by watching other vultures circling and then dropping.
Wood Storks
Wood Storks like to swish their beaks back and forth in shallow and often muddy water to stir fish and other eats. Sometimes their success can be difficult to swallow. And sometimes they have to show up at a fast-food place if it’s been a bad fishing day.
Brown Pelicans
Gliding across the ocean surface until spotting a school of fish, the Brown Pelican then climbs upward 30-plus feet, banks left, and plummets head first at 40-mph into the water when its glands expand to absorb the shock. Scooping the fish (maybe) and then tipping the bill to drain the gallon or more of water, it’s time to swallow dinner.
Other Eaters
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Bird Kids
Bird kids are cute in their own ways, always spunky, always hungry, often demanding, sometimes sleepy.