Take 5: What’s for Lunch?

Take a scroll through your Instagram or Facebook feed, and there’s a good chance you’ll see a lot of pictures of food. Be it soulfully-prepared, home-cooked meals, fancy restaurant plates with artfully-drizzled sauces, or indulgent, cheesy diner dishes, it seems we can’t help but be captivated by food.

We’re not the only ones! Our friends in the animal kingdom have appetites just as healthy as our own, so today we’ve lined up five photos of professional eaters in action, from honeybees to herons. If you’ve got great pictures of your own of hungry wildlife in action, enter the 2016 Picture This: Your Great Outdoors Photo Contest. Bon appétit!

Baby Mallard © Nathan Goshgarian, Photo Contest 2014

Baby Mallard © Nathan Goshgarian, Photo Contest 2014

Very Hungry Caterpillar © Alyssa Mattei, Photo Contest 2015

Very Hungry Caterpillar © Alyssa Mattei, Photo Contest 2015

Eastern Chipmunk © Colleen Bruso, Photo Contest 2015

Eastern Chipmunk © Colleen Bruso, Photo Contest 2015

Honey bee © James Engberg, Photo Contest 2015

Honey bee © James Engberg, Photo Contest 2015

Black-Crowned Night-Heron © Derrick Jackson, Photo Contest 2015

Black-Crowned Night-Heron © Derrick Jackson, Photo Contest 2015

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About Ryan D.

Where: Mass Audubon Headquarters, Lincoln | Who: A Vermont ex-pat, lifelong skier, musician, photographer, motorcycle enthusiast, budding native plant gardener, and pun master | Favorite part of the job: Working with wonderful colleagues to make nature accessible to everyone