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Mark Lowry
Lexington, KY, USA
This shot was gotten in a remote section of Menifee County KY. I was actually on my yearly quest to try and find some of our very hard to locate native orchid species on this spring day when I decided to take a break near an old cemetery literally out in the middle of nowhere. While resting I noticed this little fella working the dead branches of a large dead Ash tree just off to my side right at eye level. I watched this guy dig not one but two of these very large wasps out of the cracks in the wood, beat them on the limb and then eat them. I was lucky enough to get several shots with him eating the second of the two wasps before he went higher in the canopy and began preening. A very fun encounter and quite surprising at the skill at which he was able to catch and dispatch such large wasps.
Category 1: Birds with Food, or at the Feeder
Species: Black-and-white Warbler
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