Subject: GBHE - new fishing method?
Date: Oct 20 09:47:21 1998
From: "Michael G. Shepard" - mgs at vgivision.com


Myke Chutter, a bird biologist with the BC Govt sent out the following
observation:

"Don Hyde of Victoria called to report an unusual foraging method he
observed for GBHE at the Holiday Inn in Chilliwack. Apparently there is a
pair of herons that hang out there regularly. There is a pond on the
property loaded with carp. He says he observed a heron perched on a railing
at the Inn, fly off the railing and dive head first (like a kingfisher) into
the pond, grab a fish and fly back out. He says the
railing is about 10-12 ft high and about 12-15 ft from the pond, and that
the pond is too deep for the bird to alight in.

I've never heard anything like this - have you (or anyone else cc'd).
Maybe worth dropping by the Holiday Inn and taking photo's?"