For you North American birders, here's a good one to go see!! I'm surprised that this would show up on the Rio Grande.



Frank Brown

Seattle


> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 11:29:43 -0600
> From: bwessling at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: [texbirds] Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
> To: texbirds at LISTS.TEXBIRDS.ORG
>
> Being seen now from same spot
>
> Bert Wessling
> San Juan,tx
> On Friday, January 1, 2010, SeEtta Moss <seettam at gmail.com> wrote:
> > After some consternation, I have managed to upload a video clip I
> > videoscoped (took video through spotting scope lens) of the BARE-THROATED
> > TIGER-HERON feeding yesterday at Bentsen. It is pretty cool as it shows the
> > bird make a extremely fast lunge with it's bill directly behind where it
> > stood to grab some prey. While it's bill and neck twisted to the rear, it
> > continued facing the opposite direction. You really have to watch it
> > closely at that point as it's rapid motion is the opposite of it's usual
> > slow movement. Then some swallowing motions are evident followed by some
> > chewing movements (yeah, most of us chew our food before we swallow, go
> > figure). The video can be seen on my blog at
> > BirdsAndNature<http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com>and the close-up
> > digiscoped photos are in the post below it.
> >
> > I am still tweaking it, I just figured out how to increase the size of eh
> > screen and am trying to increase the resolution. There is no editing--since
> > I just got my camera and this is my first uploaded video, I haven't even
> > looked into video editing software yet.
> >
> > SeEtta Moss
> > currently in Pharr
> > http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com
> >
> > TEXBIRDS help file and Texas birding links at: http://moonmountaingroup.com/texbirds
> >
>
> TEXBIRDS help file and Texas birding links at: http://moonmountaingroup.com/texbirds