Great Blue Heron

Thank you so much for sharing you video. I enjoy watching the. Blue herons, but am confined to a wheelchair and it is difficult for me to travel.

I followed one up these up a mountain stream as I was fishing for native brook trout. I didn't know it was a heron for a couple of hours. I kept seeing its wet tracks on boulders and there were so many of those that I'd begun to believe that a flock of wild turkeys was crossing the stream. Eventually, we came face-to-face four miles from where I'd parked and at around 1800 feet elevation. I don't know how the heron made out but that day in July of '95 I'd caught and released so many trout that I stopped counting at eighty fish or so. That year saw above average rainfall and the streams in the area were running clear, high and cold. The undergrowth was so lush and verdant that my hike back down (being careful not fall and break anything) took close to two hours. I even walked right up on a perfectly camouflaged fawn that looked up at me with those big eyes. Thirty yards or so down the trail I spotted the fawn's mother that looked at me with some curiosity. I gave both creatures a wide berth as I'd disturbed them enough.

Saw them behind my home where I used to live- the Great Blue Heron is a noble animal

Nice video. It’s amazing how herons are able to swallow such big fish!

This video still amazes me

Great job filming! Beautiful creature

Youtube recommended this video me in Oct 2020 Who is watching in 2020??

It seems like the heron is dipping the fish's tail in the water to trigger a swimming response to trick the fish into helping itself down the heron's throat.

Great video my friend 👍 Serge 🍁

Putting the back end of the fish in water seems weird. It’s obviously not to torcher the animal. It’s either to wet it more to lubricate it going down the throat, but the more I see of this behaviour, the more it looks like the heron is getting the fish to think it has a chance to swim away, and it will start wiggling again while in the throat which might help the swallowing process. If that’s true, it’s pretty ingenious

it can't get any fresher than that...

Great Blue Heron......more alien than Alien........two daggers for a beak.....eyes as cold as ice........a telescopic neck that distends to a tunnel..........and a stomach made of iron. In short, the perfect eating machine!

Amazing share. Thank you! ❤️🙏

Halfway through, that bird seemed to be reevaluating it’s dietary habits.

wow amazing shot ,i did not know they could swallow big fisch like that , looks like snake swallow bigger food

HERON Golden Rule. "Never eat anything, without Drinking Water.

Outstanding footage. I didn't think it could get it down. Was wrong.

What a great capture, I am surprised he got it down. Interesting that he wanted to dip it in water to make the slide down easier too.

Hard to believe he swallowed a fish that big. It would be nice to train a heron to catch your fish.

When you stuff too many marshmallows in your mouth at once