The most surprising thing was the bird was dead, no twitching...flat out buzzard food. I never saw, heard, or read anything about LMB being pond jackals!
I've heard of catfish eating dead birds.
My BIL and friends went camping and running catfish lines on the
Mississippi. They ran out of bait, and shot some blackbirds and
used them. At first they skinned them, later they just put them
on whole. He was surprised by how many 2-3 pound catfish took a
whole blackbird.
