@@ExplorationEverythingWe know that life is nice, and that predators play a vital role in the ecosystem. We also know not to hate the heron for following its instincts. But it doesn’t make the death any less gruesome.🤷
@@thanosdoomjuggernaut2846 true if they stayed as primal t-rex, but what if they did exist, but they have evolved into t-rex bots predators with advanced technologies. I rather they evolved into a gentle giants that helps evolve and care for vulnerable cells like humans who holds humanities.
I just learned something! I had no idea that the Great Blue Heron would hunt small rodents and squirrels. I had, up to this time, thought fish, snakes and frogs were its game. Thank you. Oh, for those who thought "... Ahhhh, the poor squirrel...". This is life. It happens daily and each every second in each day.
It was a learning experience for me too😅 they have been known to go after ducklings or other small birds during spring breeding. They’ll go after anything nutritional regardless of how “cute” if it’s easy pickings.
@@nebsonso do you suggest that we should intervene in ecosystems because from our perspective its sad when a cute looking rodent gets eaten by a predator that specifically evolved to hunt such animals? Im sure removing predators from local ecosystems couldnt possibly have any ramifications….
once in my life I was on a very very low level of society. the church had to give me food. a friend then gave me little pig to eat. about a foot and a half high. as I chased it in the pen to do it in, it was a male, it instinctively knew its end was there. squealing. I felt empathy, and did not want to shoot it. it gave up and put its head between its feet. I did not want to do it in, Then, my stomach growled, I had little food, when my stomach growled, all empathy disappeared. I was totally surprised.
@donttuga9310 Correction; Birds are the only living Dinosaurs left. They aren’t actually the descendants. Secondly, some fossils indicate that the earliest bird ancestors are possibly from the middle - late Jurassic; while the definitive earliest birds are from the Early - Late Cretaceous. So birds were around during the time of the non-avian dinosaurs & have survived to modern day.
@@hcollins9941 I only said descendant to be kind, as I know plenty to people who refuse to accept that birds are, in fact, dinosaurs(same people I mentioned also refuse evidence that we humans evolved from an ape being, despite the fact our DNA is 99% the same as a gorilla) I wasn't trying to discredit science, I was simply making it simple. If that makes sense.
@@hcollins9941 Don't worry you weren't rude(at least I didn't think you were) and I understand you wanting to set the record straight with accuracy, I totally agree with you on that. After all, there's always time for scientific accuracy my friend.
Man, never thought I'd see an Animals of farthing wood reference. Whistler was an all around good character. Poor bird, his partner/wife nagged him to near death.
It’s one of the cooler birds to come by, especially when they’re hunting! Even when it’s just fish, they have some of the largest catches I’ve seen. Thanks for watching! I have a video of one eating a sting ray coming soon from a recent hike.
Lindo Lake does have a large bird population. I got there fairly often on walks around the lake. They recently completed the second lake and it has a really nice trail that goes around it. This is a real urban park gem.
It's quite the gem indeed as well as one of my favorite places to go birding in San Diego, since it's so convenient and lesser explored by the birding community here. Great breeding grounds for many birds too
Cranes also hunt a lot of lizards & snakes. They stalk farm fields inland, where there are no bodies of water, especially when the harvesters are running. In the central valley in California they follow right behind the combine harvesters picking off reptiles that get exposed as the crops are cut. There can be 20 or 30 cranes behind a harvester as it’s running. Almost right up under it.
Food webs are more dynamic incorporating all interactions between organisms rather than food chains which are more simple linear paths of energy transfer between trophic levels.
I’m not 100% sure but they shouldn’t be as smart as herons since they tend to not do as much direct food manipulation but it could happen, maybe non-intentionally. Pelicans have been shown to work in groups to herd fish but less so on manipulating food before eating it since they tend to catch smaller fish that doesn’t require much more work to swallow.
I was walking with my girlfriend around a pond and we seen a mother duck with its babies. We then seen a Blue Heron walking towards the baby ducks. My girlfriend started crying the Heron was going to eat the baby duck’s. I told her that won’t happen but then the Heron snapped up a baby duck and ate it right down.
That sucks😅 hopefully the koi pond’s population was able to rebound. Having a nice pond in your backyard must be pretty cool. Other than that herons buffet visit…
@@furyspec wow really?! It’s as if I already stated that as documented proto-tool behavior. Way to ruin comedic commentary 😂 make your own video if you’re lucky enough to catch this interaction, edit the video and get back to me with the link🙌🏽 hope it’s half as good
only a young sandiegan would compare that to dipping a tortilla in salsa...but great video otherwise. had no idea they ate red meat and not only fish...
You could try, but I don’t think the park rangers would appreciate that… It’s definitely tough to watch. I wasn’t expecting to see such an encounter that day
I saw a video of a white pelican get its mouth blown out trying to stuff prey that was way too large. Brown pelicans in SoCal usually eat fish and have one of the highest hunting success rates for birds, getting fish ~84% of their dives.
Thanks! I’d agree, it probably just needed it to stop moving enough to swallow. The neck swinging and water boarding probably partially subdued it nevertheless. Before it used the water to make for an easier swallow.
@@ExplorationEverything Ground Squirrels breathe at 100-150 breaths per minute normally. This guy was probably hyperventilating at 3 breaths per second so a short dip is enough to take in water and while not fatal, definitely debilitating. Also to lube the meal for going down the gullet.
@@onemynde8915 Sure, but I was there, and watched the squirrel go from screaming to silent and limp. The lil thing wasn’t moving, wasn’t screaming, and was passed out or dead before being ingested hence the comical commentary of a heron drowning a squirrel. Drowning a squirrel takes 1-2 min per multiple random sources, so it probably got drowned in this long process of wetting the fur. The main point is that the bird is smart enough to manipulate its food with water anyways regardless of what happened👍🏼 thanks for the insight!
The water makes it easier to swallow - not to drown it. It is still alive when swallowed, though stunned by the beak grip. It is tossing it around to get it in best swallow position.
The water can do a bunch of things still. The squirrel was panicked and breathing hard before enterning the water. It's definitely not doing better when cold water enters its lungs. It can put the rodent into shock if not actually drown it.
A bit of both. Being water boarded while having your spine snapped around is quite the combo. The prototool behavior I was referring to is the heron using water to make it easier to swallow. Basic food manipulation.
This is basically how asdarcyds or the giant pterosaurs hunted. We used to always see them as fish eaters, but these things were the size of giraffes but could fly. They most likely just ate smaller dinosaurs or their babies. Can you imagine that living in a world not only plagued in the ocean but your not even safe from the skies in the Crutaceous?
@billlynn8256 Yeah I was at the field museum and three different dinosaur strolling parks. They had these life sized replicas. I'm not joking they're the size of giraffes and their heads are twice the size of me I'm 6'3!! I used to think you would be safe if you got off the ground or in a tree from dinosaurs if you got stuck in Jurassic Park, but no! A flying giraffe will just fly down to eat you anyway.
We have Great Blue Herons in San Francisco, and seeing them hunt gophers and squirrels in Golden Gate Park is pretty common. The park's main Lake has been renamed Great Blue Heron Lake as they like to hang out on a small island, high in the trees. My favorite GBH sighting was at Fort Funston - once a coastal artillery battery and now a park. The army loved to put in Ice Plant to hold the sand in place and now large areas are overgrown with a thick cover of it. Gophers and ground squirrels live under it and you occasionally see a GBH standing in it, looking like it's standing in a pond looking into the water, but I'm pretty sure it's waiting patiently at the entrance to a tunnel.
"The rock-ribbed mountains, the tempestuous sea, the scorching desert, the myriad weeds and insects and wild beasts that infest the earth, and the noblest man, are all one. Each and all are helpless against the cruelty and immutability of the resistless processes of Nature. Whichever way man may look upon the earth, he is oppressed with the suffering incident to life. It would almost seem as though the earth had been created with malignity and hatred. If we look at what we are pleased to call the lower animals, we behold a universal carnage. We speak of the seemingly peaceful woods, but we need only look beneath the surface to be horrified by the misery of that underworld. Hidden in the grass and watching for its prey is the crawling snake which swiftly darts upon the toad or mouse and gradually swallows it alive; the hapless animal is crushed by the jaws and covered with slime, to be slowly digested in furnishing a meal. The snake knows nothing about sin or pain inflicted upon another; he automatically grabs insects and mice and frogs to preserve his life. The spider carefully weaves his web to catch the unwary fly, winds him into the fatal net until paralyzed and helpless, then drinks his blood and leaves him an empty shell. The hawk swoops down and snatches a chicken and carries it to its nest to feed its young. The wolf pounces on the lamb and tears it to shreds. The cat watches at the hole of the mouse until the mouse cautiously comes out, then with seeming fiendish glee he plays with it until tired of the game, then crunches it to death in his jaws. The beasts of the jungle roam by day and night to find their prey; the lion is endowed with strength of limb and fang to destroy and devour almost any animal that it can surprise or overtake. There is no place in the woods or air or sea where all life is not a carnage of death in terror and agony. Each animal is a hunter, and in turn is hunted, by day and night. No landscape is so beautiful or day so balmy but the cry of suffering and sacrifice rends the air. When night settles down over the earth the slaughter is not abated. Some creatures see best at night, and the outcry of the dying and terrified is always on the wind. Almost all animals meet death by violence and through the most agonizing pain. With the whole animal creation, there is nothing like a peaceful death. Nowhere in nature is there the slightest evidence of kindness, of consideration, or a feeling for the suffering and the weak, except in the narrow circle of brief family life. Man furnishes no exception to the rule. He seems to add the treachery and deceit that the other animals in the main do not practice, to all the other cruelties that move his life. " Clarence Darrow
The poor squirrel didn’t even see it coming 🥲 the circle of life is vicious.
Vicious but life is also pretty nice 👍🏼
I agree! Sometimes you don’t know whether it’s a solid or a liquid, right?
@@ExplorationEverythingWe know that life is nice, and that predators play a vital role in the ecosystem. We also know not to hate the heron for following its instincts.
But it doesn’t make the death any less gruesome.🤷
And beautiful
It’s not vicious..interrupting the circle of life is vicious!
To small animals, terror birds never became extinct.
"Nature is so peaceful and beautiful"
Nature:
To small animals, T Rex is still very much ALIVE!
But to us humans, we can any of these terror birds.
@@unityforall-md4flWho cares…. to us humans we can eat a T-Rex easily, if they still existed.
@@thanosdoomjuggernaut2846 true if they stayed as primal t-rex, but what if they did exist, but they have evolved into t-rex bots predators with advanced technologies. I rather they evolved into a gentle giants that helps evolve and care for vulnerable cells like humans who holds humanities.
I just learned something! I had no idea that the Great Blue Heron would hunt small rodents and squirrels. I had, up to this time, thought fish, snakes and frogs were its game. Thank you.
Oh, for those who thought "... Ahhhh, the poor squirrel...". This is life. It happens daily and each every second in each day.
It was a learning experience for me too😅 they have been known to go after ducklings or other small birds during spring breeding. They’ll go after anything nutritional regardless of how “cute” if it’s easy pickings.
Naturalistic fallacy. More generally: no “is” can imply an “ought”.
@@nebsonso do you suggest that we should intervene in ecosystems because from our perspective its sad when a cute looking rodent gets eaten by a predator that specifically evolved to hunt such animals? Im sure removing predators from local ecosystems couldnt possibly have any ramifications….
@@ExplorationEverythingI seen Herons eat baby ducks.
What do you think the squirrel was saying?
Heron: 'Yo, this chicken nugget dry af! Ooh! Tomato Ketchup!' 😂
when you're hungry , there is no such thing as ''cute''
Pelicans, Seagulls and now Herons, every big bird eats like that now, XD
@@SHOIOTERBLOL!!! I wonder what all those taste like. Because they can’t do anything to me whatsoever.
@@thanosdoomjuggernaut2846 Then try to get one and prepare it so you can eat it
@@SHOIOTERB It’s called a shot-gun. I bet they all taste like chicken.
once in my life I was on a very very low level of society. the church had to give me food. a friend then gave me little pig to eat. about a foot and a half high. as I chased it in the pen to do it in, it was a male, it instinctively knew its end was there. squealing. I felt empathy, and did not want to shoot it. it gave up and put its head between its feet. I did not want to do it in, Then, my stomach growled, I had little food, when my stomach growled, all empathy disappeared. I was totally surprised.
So long, Simon! 😂
Adios Alvin!🫡😭🤣
Ta-ta, Theodore! 👋🏾
Girl squirrel (freeze at 2:16)
I knew that great blues had a varied diet I just didn't realize they were rodent eaters
Apparently they’ve been known to eat baby ducks too…
I used to think it was mostly fish n snakes.
They eat what ever they can swallow.
@@ExplorationEverything I've seen them hunting gophers in a field but don't know if they flew off to the nearby creek to help wash them down.
66 million years later & this scenario hasn’t changed a bit!
Azhdarchids would be proud birds took over their lessons in hunting!
Birds are the dinosaur's descendants, so watching them is a good indication of how dinos really acted.
@donttuga9310
Correction; Birds are the only living Dinosaurs left. They aren’t actually the descendants.
Secondly, some fossils indicate that the earliest bird ancestors are possibly from the middle - late Jurassic; while the definitive earliest birds are from the Early - Late Cretaceous.
So birds were around during the time of the non-avian dinosaurs & have survived to modern day.
@@hcollins9941 I only said descendant to be kind, as I know plenty to people who refuse to accept that birds are, in fact, dinosaurs(same people I mentioned also refuse evidence that we humans evolved from an ape being, despite the fact our DNA is 99% the same as a gorilla) I wasn't trying to discredit science, I was simply making it simple. If that makes sense.
@donttuga9310
Gotcha! 👍
Wasn’t trying to sound rude so I apologize; I also completely agree with you.
@@hcollins9941 Don't worry you weren't rude(at least I didn't think you were) and I understand you wanting to set the record straight with accuracy, I totally agree with you on that. After all, there's always time for scientific accuracy my friend.
Looks like Alvin can’t talk his way out of this one lol 😂
“Like a tortilla chip in salsa” is so unserious 😭😭😭
Yeesh that’s pretty horrific. I didn’t realize they ate rodents that large.
3:10 - Alvin?! ALVIN!!!
😅😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Small mammals may be why the dinosaurs (raptors) survived.
Whistler is a lot more brutal than I remember in the Animals of Farthing Wood cartoon😂😂
Man, never thought I'd see an Animals of farthing wood reference. Whistler was an all around good character. Poor bird, his partner/wife nagged him to near death.
@@justinlapid2163 thanks dude. Grew up watching it as a kid in Nigeria 😂 Still Love it
@@orboakin8074 haha me too ! although it's hard to find a good copy of the series nowadays. Peace to all! And have a nice day
True classic right here. Just a dinosaur eating a mammal
Luckily sapiens came way after the time those giants lived haha
Wow! We have a blue heron here at the lake every year, love watching this bird fish. I had no idea they hunted on land! Great video!
It’s one of the cooler birds to come by, especially when they’re hunting! Even when it’s just fish, they have some of the largest catches I’ve seen. Thanks for watching! I have a video of one eating a sting ray coming soon from a recent hike.
If this is Lindo Lake, I use to live right around the corner on Beechtree St in the early 2000’s….beautiful area, nice vid, thanks.
Thanks! It sure is a nice part of San Diego county. The lake has been worked on and has ongoing renovations.
Impressive Strength in that Beak....!!!!!
I saw that bird twice and wow! Majestic!
@@KishorTwist GBH are great looking birds. they’re one of my favorites.
Yep Alvin bites the dust
The heron will be back for the rest of the squad
It went from a ground squirrel to a drowned squirrel real quick
Lindo Lake does have a large bird population. I got there fairly often on walks around the lake. They recently completed the second lake and it has a really nice trail that goes around it. This is a real urban park gem.
It's quite the gem indeed as well as one of my favorite places to go birding in San Diego, since it's so convenient and lesser explored by the birding community here. Great breeding grounds for many birds too
Cranes also hunt a lot of lizards & snakes. They stalk farm fields inland, where there are no bodies of water, especially when the harvesters are running. In the central valley in California they follow right behind the combine harvesters picking off reptiles that get exposed as the crops are cut. There can be 20 or 30 cranes behind a harvester as it’s running. Almost right up under it.
Great photos and video.
Thank you! Have a great day🫡
3:38 "check off its " to do list" 😅😅😅😅
Heron: my dinosaur ancestors are proud!
Great Blue Heron's are beautiful birds
Cool stuff!
Thanks 🫡
*Mahito in the background*: If you were hungry I could’ve made us something!
Did that Great Blue Heron just double dip that chip??? 😳
We could certainly use a few of these Herons here in North County! Nice vid.
Some herons would do well fending the squirrels from the garden here too… thanks for watching!
Great commentary. Informative.
Thanks, Much appreciated!
The Heron didn't even chew!
Those people walking the dog coc...I mean squirrel blocked him😅
😂I guess you could say that. It happens quite often
".. like a totilla in red sauce..."
Beautiful bird
amazing photography
Thanks a lot! I’ll try to keep on improving
Great job with the camera!
Thanks! I had no tripod, so an awkward position kept the camera stable enough lol
This is what a phoetus sounds like during a d-n-x
Alvin… ALVIN!!!
Freakin' Maniraptoran theropods...
Be happy that modern dinosaurs are relatively small.
I thought the water was to act as a lubricant to get it down their throat.
I need these birds in my yard!😂
I feel you on that 😂 there are squirrels eating up my garden
Food web?
Food webs are more dynamic incorporating all interactions between organisms rather than food chains which are more simple linear paths of energy transfer between trophic levels.
@@ExplorationEverything Someone always has to reinvent the wheel! Thanks
My crows ate squirrels somewhat regularly.
I had no idea we get herons hunting at Lindo Lake. That’s my local lake too, though I haven’t gone there too often.
Herons are pond dragons. Change my mind.
I won’t try to, I agree! haha
I won’t try to, I agree! haha
the video shows it caught a squirrel- but twice you called it a chipmunk when it's consuming it
Ah yes, an honest mistake for free content since it was all edited and filmed in the same day.
In Poway, the herons catch gophers.
That's cool! I need one of those herons to protect my garden...
That is obviously a squirrel not a chipmunk.
They are dinosaurs....
2:10 I've seen videos of pelicans doing this. Are they particularly intelligent as well?
I’m not 100% sure but they shouldn’t be as smart as herons since they tend to not do as much direct food manipulation but it could happen, maybe non-intentionally. Pelicans have been shown to work in groups to herd fish but less so on manipulating food before eating it since they tend to catch smaller fish that doesn’t require much more work to swallow.
Squirrels??? Man…had no idea
@@Scott767300 and baby ducks sometimes if they’re easy pickings…😅 they’re smart but ruthless for a meal
@@ExplorationEverything really interesting. Thanks for postinb👍
Never seen a squirrel get eaten before.!
I can't get within 50 yards of one of those... They take off
Water lubricates the food.
Blue heron likes fish sticks
Squirrel sticks too😬
"to relax their spines" what??
It’s the language used by one of the articles from Cornell lab of ornithology on the life history of the gbh.
I think the bird was incapacitating the rodent so that it wouldn't be injured while eating it.
I was walking with my girlfriend around a pond and we seen a mother duck with its babies. We then seen a Blue Heron walking towards the baby ducks. My girlfriend started crying the Heron was going to eat the baby duck’s. I told her that won’t happen but then the Heron snapped up a baby duck and ate it right down.
Isn't this an egret?
it's a Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias. Great egrets (fully white, yellow bill, and smaller) are technically also herons.
@@ExplorationEverything I get these confused a lot. Thanks. :)
I had a beautiful coy pond until one day, a grey heron discovered the smorgasbord. It devastated the coy population.
That sucks😅 hopefully the koi pond’s population was able to rebound. Having a nice pond in your backyard must be pretty cool. Other than that herons buffet visit…
No. Theodore!
Dinosaurs live!
Dog walker mess up it first shot! By the way, concert is over
IIIIIII thought their diet was 100% fish... wow
We both learned something from that walk in a park haha
He dips it in water like a tortillas with salsa...terrible example, it isn't for taste. He dips it so it goes down his throat easier.
@@furyspec wow really?! It’s as if I already stated that as documented proto-tool behavior. Way to ruin comedic commentary 😂 make your own video if you’re lucky enough to catch this interaction, edit the video and get back to me with the link🙌🏽 hope it’s half as good
only a young sandiegan would compare that to dipping a tortilla in salsa...but great video otherwise. had no idea they ate red meat and not only fish...
food chain
I like to see the chipmonks in my yard.
True Predator
Bon Appetite
Algorithm brought you here too?
Great video I love great blue herons and I hate grey squirrels...
Thanks! They can definitely be a nuisance when abundant
This is sad. I would intervene.!
You could try, but I don’t think the park rangers would appreciate that… It’s definitely tough to watch. I wasn’t expecting to see such an encounter that day
@@ExplorationEverything They are never around when anyone needs them.
Pelicans are pretty awful too.
I saw a video of a white pelican get its mouth blown out trying to stuff prey that was way too large.
Brown pelicans in SoCal usually eat fish and have one of the highest hunting success rates for birds, getting fish ~84% of their dives.
Where the humanity? Why didnt the cameraman stop it?
Not trying to get fined by messing with protected wildlife. You can if you want the rangers to have a talk with ya...
This literally happens all the time in nature.
Dead Sea. Squirrel. .
Tastes just like chicken
Did you leave that baby chipmunk there for content? A highly doubt it was playing so close to the water away from tree's & tall grass
@@jaysonb.6669 …no😂 literally just walked by and filmed this
Yuk
It didn't look to me like the bird was drowning the rodent, maybe just lubricating the meal to make it easier to swallow? Good video, though!
Thanks! I’d agree, it probably just needed it to stop moving enough to swallow. The neck swinging and water boarding probably partially subdued it nevertheless.
Before it used the water to make for an easier swallow.
@@ExplorationEverything Ground Squirrels breathe at 100-150 breaths per minute normally. This guy was probably hyperventilating at 3 breaths per second so a short dip is enough to take in water and while not fatal, definitely debilitating. Also to lube the meal for going down the gullet.
@@onemynde8915 Sure, but I was there, and watched the squirrel go from screaming to silent and limp. The lil thing wasn’t moving, wasn’t screaming, and was passed out or dead before being ingested hence the comical commentary of a heron drowning a squirrel. Drowning a squirrel takes 1-2 min per multiple random sources, so it probably got drowned in this long process of wetting the fur.
The main point is that the bird is smart enough to manipulate its food with water anyways regardless of what happened👍🏼 thanks for the insight!
Sauce 😋
Creatures can still sometimes damage herons when the bird swallows
Great blue heron is a massively underrated predator
Great blue herons are killing machines who kill anything even when they aren't hungry.
The water makes it easier to swallow - not to drown it. It is still alive when swallowed, though stunned by the beak grip. It is tossing it around to get it in best swallow position.
No, it's shaking it around to stun it
The water can do a bunch of things still.
The squirrel was panicked and breathing hard before enterning the water. It's definitely not doing better when cold water enters its lungs. It can put the rodent into shock if not actually drown it.
A bit of both. Being water boarded while having your spine snapped around is quite the combo. The prototool behavior I was referring to is the heron using water to make it easier to swallow. Basic food manipulation.
"...dips the squirrel in water like a tortilla chip in salsa." EEUUUWWWWW!
The Popeyes Biscuit of the animal kingdom
This is basically how asdarcyds or the giant pterosaurs hunted. We used to always see them as fish eaters, but these things were the size of giraffes but could fly.
They most likely just ate smaller dinosaurs or their babies. Can you imagine that living in a world not only plagued in the ocean but your not even safe from the skies in the Crutaceous?
I would never leave the cave.
@billlynn8256 Yeah I was at the field museum and three different dinosaur strolling parks. They had these life sized replicas. I'm not joking they're the size of giraffes and their heads are twice the size of me I'm 6'3!!
I used to think you would be safe if you got off the ground or in a tree from dinosaurs if you got stuck in Jurassic Park, but no! A flying giraffe will just fly down to eat you anyway.
The only giraffe-sized ones were quetzalcoatlus and hatzegopteryx tho
"Where's Alvin and Theodore? No comment!!! Well then, gurglegurglegurgle!!!"
😂😂😂
Very creamy of you...
This hungry pterodactyl...😂😂
Great video.
@@ultimatez1 thanks! Definitely felt like I was watching a miniaturized dinosaur documentary in the making
LOL those Canadian honkers in the background noise look more like dinos.
Wow totally unexpected. For some reason the idea of the Heron eating fish doesn't bother me but the poor squirrel 😢
Like Kurt Cobain said, fish don't have feelings.
If snakes, lizards, and fish had vocal chords we’d probably feel for them too.
It’s the only time I’ve seen this happen so far though.
We have Great Blue Herons in San Francisco, and seeing them hunt gophers and squirrels in Golden Gate Park is pretty common. The park's main Lake has been renamed Great Blue Heron Lake as they like to hang out on a small island, high in the trees. My favorite GBH sighting was at Fort Funston - once a coastal artillery battery and now a park. The army loved to put in Ice Plant to hold the sand in place and now large areas are overgrown with a thick cover of it. Gophers and ground squirrels live under it and you occasionally see a GBH standing in it, looking like it's standing in a pond looking into the water, but I'm pretty sure it's waiting patiently at the entrance to a tunnel.
Imagine being eaten alive
Must be pretty claustrophobic, being digested in a bird's stomach.
And Dark
Start swimming in the ocean and see if you can experience that.
Great camera work!
Thanks a lot! I’ll definitely have to practice more for better stability
We have a lot of sandhill cranes in my area. It's easy to imagine them as dinosaurs.
@@Walter-wo5sz that’s super cool for you! Those are amazing birds. I hope to see one soon
They do move in herds...
"The rock-ribbed mountains, the tempestuous sea, the scorching desert, the myriad weeds and insects and wild beasts that infest the earth, and the noblest man, are all one. Each and all are helpless against the cruelty and immutability of the resistless processes of Nature. Whichever way man may look upon the earth, he is oppressed with the suffering incident to life. It would almost seem as though the earth had been created with malignity and hatred. If we look at what we are pleased to call the lower animals, we behold a universal carnage. We speak of the seemingly peaceful woods, but we need only look beneath the surface to be horrified by the misery of that underworld. Hidden in the grass and watching for its prey is the crawling snake which swiftly darts upon the toad or mouse and gradually swallows it alive; the hapless animal is crushed by the jaws and covered with slime, to be slowly digested in furnishing a meal. The snake knows nothing about sin or pain inflicted upon another; he automatically grabs insects and mice and frogs to preserve his life. The spider carefully weaves his web to catch the unwary fly, winds him into the fatal net until paralyzed and helpless, then drinks his blood and leaves him an empty shell. The hawk swoops down and snatches a chicken and carries it to its nest to feed its young. The wolf pounces on the lamb and tears it to shreds. The cat watches at the hole of the mouse until the mouse cautiously comes out, then with seeming fiendish glee he plays with it until tired of the game, then crunches it to death in his jaws. The beasts of the jungle roam by day and night to find their prey; the lion is endowed with strength of limb and fang to destroy and devour almost any animal that it can surprise or overtake. There is no place in the woods or air or sea where all life is not a carnage of death in terror and agony. Each animal is a hunter, and in turn is hunted, by day and night. No landscape is so beautiful or day so balmy but the cry of suffering and sacrifice rends the air. When night settles down over the earth the slaughter is not abated. Some creatures see best at night, and the outcry of the dying and terrified is always on the wind. Almost all animals meet death by violence and through the most agonizing pain. With the whole animal creation, there is nothing like a peaceful death. Nowhere in nature is there the slightest evidence of kindness, of consideration, or a feeling for the suffering and the weak, except in the narrow circle of brief family life. Man furnishes no exception to the rule. He seems to add the treachery and deceit that the other animals in the main do not practice, to all the other cruelties that move his life. " Clarence Darrow
One day you're the predator, next day the prey. That's mother nature
It’s quite the messy web but it has its beauty
1:50 aww the blue herion and the squirrel are good friends ❤😊
Herons are the descendants of a bird group which called terror birds - the fearsome carnivores
“Like a tortilla chip in salsa”
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