day 337 long beach

california state university long beach japanese garden. my son and i had just gotten there, we went straight to look at the koi fish, when we heard and saw a big splash, a bird! it snatched a fish out of the water in it's claws and flew away with it! we were both looking at each other and then at the bird flying away carrying the fish and then back at each other all wide eyed and with mouths open like woah!! it was awesome but i was sad for that fish just hoping a human would give it some food and suddenly yikes he IS food! most of the koi there are pretty big, the really small ones are down swimming lower in the pond. this one was mid sized compared to the rest so i figure a youngish fish just getting big enough to swim with the big guys. we looked around in the field next to the garden out of curiosity and because that bird wasn't that big and couldn't have taken it far to eat it. we didn't find them. it's a pretty little garden.