While I still have 9 installments of Robert Lang’s lovely photos from Brazil’s Pantanal region, I would like to spread things over time, and this is the last set of non-Langian photos I have. I therefore implore you to send in your good wildlife photos (and please, more than one!). Otherwise this series will wane and then vanish.
But today we have heron photos from Mark Shifman. His captions are indented and you can enlarge his photos by clicking on them.
These shots show the cycle of life.
Here’s a Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) catching and eating a fish. Some shots are without the fish. They were taken at the Cumberland River in Nashville.
Amazing to see that IRL I bet … great find!
It’s hard to believe such a skinny beak could swallow such a wide fish whole.
Thanks for the wonderful documentation of the catch!
I had no idea that Mark Shifman was a non-Langian! So be it.
Nice photographs!
Over a decade ago, up at Blackwater Falls WV, which is something like 2900ft elevation, I was astonished to see a blue heron at the base of the falls, fishing. He eventually got one, too. I always thought that herons were shore birds.
I thought I might find a YT of one there, but no luck.
What great action photos! And that is the beardiest GBH ever.
And the fish is a Gizzard Shad (Dorosoma cepedianum), I believe.
Wow! Wish I’d seen it person. But your photos are the next best thing.