[email protected] wrote :
> The usual population of grey herons went about their business, but what
> ?is? their business ? I have never seen one with a fish. They are waders
> and they can ?stab? their prey. So why do they park themselves on the bank
> from which position they could never reach the water, let alone target a
> meal ?

But they can. I have watched them stand on the bank and thrust there 
beaks forward into the cut to catch a fish. I have also seen them dive 
into the canal and take fish. What I can't work out is how they see 
them in the murky water.





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