A story of a little cormorant that dives into the deep water for his first meal in the morning golden light.
Golden Catch is a series of photographs that tells about the story of a little cormorant hunt. The little cormorant is a water bird and an excellent hunter; it catches fish, shrimps, and prawns as its meal. Here it explores the hunt of a cormorant in the early morning golden light in the Changaram wetland, Alappuzha, Kerala. It’s a home for hundreds of water birds and migratory birds, especially cormorants.
First Catch A little cormorant catching a prawn.
The photograph starts with the little cormorant catching a prawn in the morning light. Perhaps it may be the first meal of the day, and it’s a prawn. And the upcoming is about how it kills and eats the prawn. The second photograph is that of a cormorant spinning the prawn in its beak, meanwhile surrounded by the water droplets.
Death Spin It catches the prawn and spins it around.
Also after the spin, the little cormorant ensured the kill and started to toss it in the air in between its beak. The tossing time the prawn looks like a golden prawn because the morning light passes through its transparent body that makes it a golden catch or golden toss. At the end, it swallows the prawn fully as his first meal of the early morning.
Golden Toss Tossing the prawn in the golden morning light.
Golden Catch revels in the beauty of little cormorants as well as the style of catching their prey. The morning sunlight as a backlight makes this picture more beautiful to watch. While photographing them, I had a great chance to observe them and learn how they catch fish and prawns and also how they fly and dry their wings. And also photograph the other water birds surrounded there in Changaram Wetland.
Swallow Crunch Little cormorant swallowing the prawn.
Copyrights: All the photos and text in this post are copyright of Harikrishnan PK and Creative Hut Institute of Photography and Film. Their reproduction, full or part, is forbidden without the explicit approval of the rightful owners.
