‘Once in a Lifetime’ Photo of Bobcat Pouncing on Heron Mid-Flight

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Jacob Hall captured the heart-stopping moment in coastal Texas while driving near Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge. He spotted the heron but was not expecting a bobcat to attack it.

“All of a sudden I noticed this great blue heron in the distance flying and quickly snapped two photos,” Hall tells PetaPixel. “It wasn’t until after I took the photos that I realized what I had just captured.”

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In Hall’s first photo, the heron is flying in the center of the frame with the camouflaged bobcat in the lower right-hand side of the image staring upward at the large wading bird. In Hall’s next frame, the bobcat is in the air with the heron in a Superman pose. The bobcat successfully caught the heron and brought it into the water.

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“I took the second photo within seconds after the first one. After I took the second photo I was wondering why the blue heron fell out of the sky. And then like I said before it wasn’t until afterwards that I had realized what I had just captured.”

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