In Florida I got a photo of Great Blue Heron with Common Moorhen in bill. Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://coloradobirder.ning.com Mobile: http://coloradobirder.ning.com/m
On Jun 18, 11:23 pm, Deborah Carstensen <fiddlen...@aol.com> wrote: > 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 > > Sent from my iPhone > > 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 > > <cobirds@googlegroups.com> > > Sent: Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:22 pm > > 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 > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "Colorado Birds" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > >> email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. > >> To view this discussion on the web > >> visithttps://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CANF-7hqACXngAvnVg3KwS3SULV.... > >> For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "Colorado Birds" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > >> email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. > >> To view this discussion on the web > >> visithttps://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/F90B1155A81D474890D22EEFFFA.... > >> For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Colorado Birds" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web > > visithttps://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAPHVJegV-4WFCFViigz-Ga3DmB.... > > For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Colorado Birds" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web > > visithttps://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/8D03ABDDC6CBF8E-17B0-3634D%.... > > For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. 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