My illusions have been burst! GREAT BLUE HERONS are giant, stately
garbage guts of the wetlands crowd.

>>> Saw a couple of crows dive bombing a GREAT BLUE HERON. Now what have
>>>herons ever done to crows? From my understanding, herons eat fish, not
>>>other birds!
>>
>>My understanding is that Great-blue Herons will eat just about anything they
>>can swallow, .....
>
>I doubt they would go nest robbing due primarily to their size. But a chick
>on the ground on newly fledged might be tempting. I've seen a GBH take a
>rat in a field near Palo Alto and swallow it whole.
Yuck! How undignified. Yeah, I'm anthropomorphizing, but how can
something that looks so dignified, eat a rat whole?! I figure that's
something a dumpster diving crow would do when it wants to "rough it".
>
>I believe other herons have similar eating habits as well.

Illusions are meant to be burst.


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