Okay, so this observation is a little different. A couple of years ago, I
watched as a juvenile great blue heron caught a six-inch long fish, brought it
up onto the grass 15 feet, peck at it twice, and then pick it up and put it
back in the water, after which he went right back hunting.
Now
My wife watched one a week or so ago, at the "duck pond" NW of the COS Fine
Arts Center, catch and struggle with swallowing a bat, which it eventually did.
These herons remind me of the old lady who swallowed a fly...
Marty Wolf
NW Colorado Springs
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From: Chip Clous
I fell asleep in early evening last night so didn't post that the
TRICOLORED HERON was seen by at least 3 birders yesterday morning (but it
evaded me after I spoke with a couple of them). So with John Drummond's
post it was present both morning and mid-afternoon yesterday.
I did not go out today
I watched a Great Blue Heron catch and eventually swallow a smallish
muskrat at Gilbert Water Ranch near Phoenix in April (the drowning part
didn't really work here but it clamped down around the neck after several
dunks and eventually cut off its air while standing tall out of the
water.). I have
Hi Mark and Chuck,
Steve Martin had these two species produce hybrid offspring on his property
near Wellington several years ago (mid-1990's, as I recall, see cover of CFO
Journal during that period for a pic), and I have had Mountains nest at
Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins a few times (just
Hello All,
I will be in Grand Lake (Grand County) on Thursday and Friday of this week
and am wondering if anyone that is familiar with the area could give me any
tips on the following species:
Red Crossbill (I know they are nomadic, but if there are any good sites,
that would be helpful)
Dusky Fl
Seen foraging on wooden fenceposts on June 17th, around 530PM just east of
the intersection of Link Rd. and Ermel Rd. in Fountain, CO.
David Woolley
Colorado Springs, CO.
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Many years ago at Little Gaynor Lake along Oxford Rd. west of US 287 in Boulder
County, I not only saw a Great Blue Heron capture a baby prairie dog, but then
take it, while it dangled from its bill, to the lake and drown it before
flipping it up in the air to catch and swallow it.
Bill Kaempfe
In Daughenbaugh Open Space north of Cherry St. and Coal Creek in
Louisville, I saw an amazing sight Sunday evening: a GBH stalking baby
prairie dogs! I didn't see it catch one, but I couldn't help but imagine
the heron trying to swallow a prairie dog. It might not be so different
from swallowing
Last Saturday my son Bob took my car and me from 10AM to 2:30PM
here, Great for handicapped birders . The Wildlife Drive Auto Tour
is especially good for
viewing birds. There is a wide shoulder (dirt) to pull off on to
view birds from the car . Most of the road is tree lined too.
Speci
Birders,
Early this afternoon, I found an adult, light phase Pomarine Jaeger
while working at Adobe Creek Reservoir. It was on the shoreline, and
swimming just offshore on the east side of the point of land that juts
north into the lake in the SW corner of the Reservoir. As it seems to be
fli
Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: June 18, 2013
email: rba AT cobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
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