Tule Springs are a few miles north of Las Vegas. They've been there hundreds of years. Good place to "shoot" birds in the fall. I've seen Blue Herons catching fish but this is the first time I've ever seen one catch a mouse out of it's hole in the ground. I think he's done it before. I did have to remove a pole sign in the background. The entire time on the clock took 3 seconds: d500, f6.3, 1/1000, ISO1250
Striding away on our arrival
Looking back he was watching us.
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BAM! He was so fast we just saw his head go down and back up with the mouse.
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Then he positioned it, head first
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Half way down
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Note the large bulge at the top of his neck
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And a long drink to wash it down
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Wow! I didn't know blue herons ate mice. You got quite a sequence.
Bobnewnan wrote:
Tule Springs are a few miles north of Las Vegas. They've been there hundreds of years. Good place to "shoot" birds in the fall. I've seen Blue Herons catching fish but this is the first time I've ever seen one catch a mouse out of it's hole in the ground. I think he's done it before. I did have to remove a pole sign in the background. The entire time on the clock took 3 seconds: d500, f6.3, 1/1000, ISO1250
Nice set of shots Bobnewman
Very well done. Nice story.
Madman
Loc: Gulf Coast, Florida USA
Awesome series! Great Blue 1 - Mouse 0.
Thanks for sharing.
Great series !!! He GBH is almost as good as you Bob. Thank you for sharing. Shang
That was great Bob ... well, except from the mouse's perspective.
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Bobnewnan wrote:
Tule Springs are a few miles north of Las Vegas. They've been there hundreds of years. Good place to "shoot" birds in the fall. I've seen Blue Herons catching fish but this is the first time I've ever seen one catch a mouse out of it's hole in the ground. I think he's done it before. I did have to remove a pole sign in the background. The entire time on the clock took 3 seconds: d500, f6.3, 1/1000, ISO1250
Great sequence! I was surprised about a heron eating mice, but I guess they will since there are less fish in the region.
Blue Heron's will eat about anything they can catch. I was sent a video of one catching a gopher in someone's back yard. It made a pretty big bulge in the heron's neck.
That was a great sequence. I was surprised that they ate mice. I think of them as only eating fish. Learn something new on this site every day.
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