The things that you can find when you sit and observe the landscape are just incredible. This afternoon I was settled on a beautiful organic sand beach in Gardner Bay (Española Island) and I saw a very small heron, the endemic lava heron (Butorides (Ardeola) sundevalli), walking along the seashore.
It was trying to find something to eat, and it suddenly stopped and started to show hunting behavior. It looked like a rock, not moving for about 15 minutes, and then it put its bill into the water very fast and grabbed a small fish: a baby surgeonfish. The fish was trying to escape, but the heron moved its beak very fast and swallowed the fish alive. Then it washed its beak and drank a little water to finish lunch. It was a spectacular show, right on the shoreline of one of the Galapagos Islands.
