A little fighter---Fish vs Grey heron

Herons, especially the Grey heron, are famous for their fishing skills, but not if they meet their match.

I saw this Grey heron fishing in a shallow river. 

After a while, it caught a small fish. 

As the heron was about to swallow it, suddenly, the fish struggled and slipped into the water. 

The heron picked it up immediately. To its surprise, the little fish was not prepared to give up without a fight, and managed to flee again. 

I guess the heron was too hungry to let the small fish go. It captured the fish from the water again for the third time! 

I thought this must be the end of the fish’s life. To my amazement, this time the tiny fish fought even harder. 

Then suddenly the fish stopped moving. 

The heron (and I)  thought that it had finally got its meal. Unexpectedly, to my astonishment the little creature started moving again and slipped through the heron’s mouth, 

and escaped into the water! The heron seemed too shocked to respond. 

It finally gave up fishing altogether and left. The whole event lasted just over a minute.

It reminded me of the saying “where there’s a will, there's a way”.  I wish the clever little fish all the best after winning the war against the giant predator.