great blue herons are quite opportunistic. i have photos of them consuming
what i believe was a norway rat (juanita bay park) and a vole (ridgefield),
and attempting to down a salmon that probably outweighed the bird by quite
a bit (also juanita bay park)... oh, and fish... they like fish :)

if it fits, it eats...

00 caren
http://www.ParkGallery.org
george davis creek, north fork


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:23 PM, <plkoyama at comcast.net> wrote:

> Terry and Tweets,
>
> This is really amazing. Along the line of surprising bird meals, when my
> husband and I were down at the Imperial Beach Pier in S. Cal. last weekend,
> we saw a Western Gull killing and eating a crow. We didn?t see if it
> killed the crow ?all by itself,? or if the crow was somehow already
> impaired, but we did see it finish the crow off and start pulling the
> feathers out. We didn?t stay for the feast we assumed was inevitable.
>
> Penny Koyama, Bothell
> plkoyama at comcast dot net
>
> *From:* Terry Sargent Peart <terry.peart at outlook.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, July 18, 2014 7:49 PM
> *To:* Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> *Subject:* [Tweeters] Great Blue Heron hunting video
>
> Tweets,
> I don't know if you will all be able to access this, but I saw this video
> and couldn't hardly believe it. I don't know the man that videoed this,
> but it appears he lives in Toppenish or somewhere near there.
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10204262495191468&set=vb.1500784159&type=2&theater
>
> Terry P
> West Seattle
>
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