Okay, so this observation is a little different. A couple of years ago, I
watched as a juvenile great blue heron caught a six-inch long fish, brought it
up onto the grass 15 feet, peck at it twice, and then pick it up and put it
back in the water, after which he went right back hunting.
Now, I was surprised enough that he didn't eat the fish, but was amazed
that he took it back to the water! What is that about?
Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County
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On Jun 18, 2013, at 10:37 PM, macaw...@aol.com wrote:
> My wife watched one a week or so ago, at the "duck pond" NW of the COS Fine
> Arts Center, catch and struggle with swallowing a bat, which it eventually
> did. These herons remind me of the old lady who swallowed a fly...
>
> Marty Wolf
> NW Colorado Springs
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chip Clouse <chip.clo...@gmail.com>
> To: kaempfer <kaemp...@colorado.edu>
> Cc: redstart.paula <redstart.pa...@gmail.com>; cobirds
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> Subject: RE: [cobirds] Great Blue Heron hunting prairie dogs??, Boulder County
>
> I watched a Great Blue Heron catch and eventually swallow a smallish muskrat
> at Gilbert Water Ranch near Phoenix in April (the drowning part didn't really
> work here but it clamped down around the neck after several dunks and
> eventually cut off its air while standing tall out of the water.). I have
> also watched them catch mice in dry fields north of Boundary Bay, BC. It
> wouldn't surprise me! Exciting!!!
> Chip Clouse
> Arvada, CO
> On Jun 18, 2013 7:08 PM, "William H Kaempfer" <william.kaemp...@colorado.edu>
> wrote:
>> Many years ago at Little Gaynor Lake along Oxford Rd. west of US 287 in
>> Boulder County, I not only saw a Great Blue Heron capture a baby prairie
>> dog, but then take it, while it dangled from its bill, to the lake and drown
>> it before flipping it up in the air to catch and swallow it.
>>
>> Bill Kaempfer
>> Boulder
>>
>> From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
>> Of Paula Hansley
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 5:01 PM
>> To: CObirds
>> Subject: [cobirds] Great Blue Heron hunting prairie dogs??, Boulder County
>>
>> In Daughenbaugh Open Space north of Cherry St. and Coal Creek in Louisville,
>> I saw an amazing sight Sunday evening: a GBH stalking baby prairie dogs! I
>> didn't see it catch one, but I couldn't help but imagine the heron trying to
>> swallow a prairie dog. It might not be so different from swallowing a large
>> frog, though.
>>
>> Paula Hansley
>> Louisville
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