Posted on 12/08/2020 11:00:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
Dang! I didn’t know they could manage one that big.
Sometimes you are the windshield
Sometimes you are the bug
I have seen birds like this in the park hovering over gopher holes. They must have seen them while flying then landed and waited to strike which is lightning quick.
#7 that is a photo of a bird wishing it was bigger.
>Wouldn’t the “food” be biting and clawing all the way down? And for a while after?
Actually, herons kill prey first by hitting it in the head like a woodpecker. And they do that due to instinctual drive, and will strike again before eating. Some koi keepers can come out and find all their expensive fish floating, looking like they were shot in the skull with a 22.
The alligator swam by the heron, got “shot” in the head, and was stunned or dead and floating when the heron swallowed it.
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