Re: Cranes and G. Blue Herons

["John CAVITT" <JCAVITT at weber dot edu>]

I have never seen a GBH eat a bird but did get to watch one devour a
muskrat last week.  I'm not sure I would have thought the muskrat was
"small enough to swallow", but he managed to choke down the whole thing.
 Now if these guys would just eat more carp!

JFC 

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>>> Mark Stackhouse <westwings@sisna.com> 06/06/05 11:05 AM >>>
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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