Great Blue Heron (swallows a big one)
Oct 21, 2019 14:52:07 #
Reconvic
Loc: clermont Fl
Have captured many Great Blues with various a sundry of items in it's beak. Yesterday retiredCPO, Sally and I watched this Heron trying to get down this HUGE UGLY catfish. For a good 15 minutes he tried and tried. He dunked it in the water, He speared it again and again, the entire time Sally and Chief saying there was NO WAY while I said WAY and cheered the glutton on!
Huge and Ugly
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"the fins"...NO WAY!
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uh-huh
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GULP
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what lump?
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"I can't believe I ate the WHOLE thing"
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Oct 21, 2019 14:54:01 #
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Oct 21, 2019 15:03:56 #
Rick-ws
Loc: Seattle or North Idaho
Time for a GBH anatomy lesson to understand how they eat something that large and not suffocate.
Wonderful series of excellently well done Fotos.
Wonderful series of excellently well done Fotos.
Oct 21, 2019 15:11:33 #
Reconvic
Loc: clermont Fl
Thanks so much Rick. We couldn't believe it could get it past the pectoral fins that were protruding!
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Oct 21, 2019 17:00:33 #
Reconvic
Loc: clermont Fl
Thanks Mac! Good thing about this fish that happens to be an invasive species here in Florida, to be eaten! Plecostomus that people normally have in aquariums.
Oct 21, 2019 17:58:14 #
Reconvic wrote:
Have captured many Great Blues with various a sundry of items in it's beak. Yesterday retiredCPO, Sally and I watched this Heron trying to get down this HUGE UGLY catfish. For a good 15 minutes he tried and tried. He dunked it in the water, He speared it again and again, the entire time Sally and Chief saying there was NO WAY while I said WAY and cheered the glutton on!
Great series. Thanks for sharing this. Very nice images to boot.
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