Re: Cranes and G. Blue Herons

[Mark Stackhouse <westwings at sisna dot com>]

I read once that some one said of the Great Blue Heron that it would 
eat anything small enough to swallow. It was in a article giving an 
account of a GBH eating a Dipper. The strangest thing I've ever seen a 
Great Blue Heron eat was a Violet-green Swallow, which it snatched out 
of mid-air as it flew low over the water at Farmington Bay.

Mark Stackhouse
801-487-9453 (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
011-52-323-285-1243 (San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico)

On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:47 AM, Nicky Davis wrote:

> I forgot to mention the Great Blue Herons, about 5, with about 3 
> Sandhill Cranes in the field just to the South of the road where it 
> turns North from Mona to Goshen Canyon. I didn't know Great Blue 
> Herons ate mice, but as I watched one in that field that's exactly 
> what he did.
>
> Nicky
>
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