this applies to everything and it's very annoying. I watched one video of a cute bunny eating a flower the other day. I regret ever doing that. You click one video of a topic once and you're getting related videos for weeks. You click not interested on a topic a hundred times, youtube keeps sending more your way.
People assume that Herons, Cranes and Egrets are graceful birds, and they are Magnificent birds in flight. But they are also top predators on land, as you just witnessed. They can also swallow their siblings whole in the nest, while the parent looks on approvingly.
@@mtuz8356 Only the ones who had to deliver the eggs. Fuckin' hurts and nobody's gonna make them go through THAT shit again. The heron husbands don't give a damn. Drunk half the time.
Can you imagine being that gopher? One second you're minding your own business, and the next thing you know you're in the jaws of a giant pterodactyl. After a few endless minutes of terror, you're then sliding down a dark narrow channel, getting crushed, and then into a pool of stomach acid, where you are then slowly disintegrated and digested.
Pro canoe marathon racer when i lived in Alpena, Mich. Trained on the Thunder Bay River there from Heron Rd. to town--10 mile plus run--. Always spooked the Blue Heron, the a mile down stream kicked it up again, this time returning upstream to its favorite spot. Same bird magnificent every time on that practice run.
I see a few herons a day and I have never seen them snag a rodent or even swallow anything that big. Sandhill cranes are the omnivores here in the midwest.
I was actually being an ass... My point was if anyone looked up geomyidae, whether it’s compared to a sand shrew or a sewer rat, the side by side similarities are narrow enough for the second comment in this thread that I responded to initially to be useless...
Geez! I watched one GBH swallow a brewife (river Herring) whole...alive! That thing squiggled, writhed, and thrashed the whole way down that long throat. Of course, the GBH was unfazed. Incredible bird.Thanks!
Nah, the Heron used its beak to compress the rodents chest to suffocate it before eating it. If it were still alive it would have clawed the Heron's throat and gullet, which would probably have resulted in the Heron dieing from specis from the dirty internal wound. Every time it puts the rodent on the ground it's readjusting its grip to better compress the rodents chest.
Wow, incredible catch on film, mate. No water to wash it down...hmm. The rodent seemed to be dead when the heron put it on the ground. I was trying to find the point at which it died.
I saw a photo of an xray in National Geographic one time of a heron or an egret that, unfortunately, swallowed the gopher before it died. The gopher was chewing its way out of the stomach before both rodent and bird died.
@@raymondo162 Haha, glad you mention gulls. Yes, they usually eat fish, but as CZcams taught me, they also eat rabbits, snakes, sparrows... pretty much anything that fits in their throat^^ Just like herons as it seems.
While bowhunting I sat in a treestand and watched blue herons catch and swallow blue crabs pointed shell and all. Sometimes they would shake the hell out of the crab to get rid of the legs. Amazing what they can swallow whole.
I have this cartoon I drew in high school. Its a stork trying to swallow a frog. The head and half the body of the frog is down the birds throat and the frogs front legs are grabbing the stork around the throat. Preventing him from being swallowed. I wrote at the top, NEVER GIVE UP
They are. It is one. In scientific nomenclature there is no longer such things as birds. They are called avian dinosaurs. They are from the therapod family line. Like T-rex and Velociraptors
That's some kind of spalax/blesmol, not a vole; voles are pretty small. You can tell it's some kind of spalax/blesmol by it's size and it's weird exposed teeth.
isnt it weird to think that this is basically what it looked like when dinosaurs (which as we now know looked a LOT like birds {at least some of them did} ate our very own ancestors?
I do WONDER does the Heron have any sense of smell? That rodent defecated all over the place and the Heron thinks nothing of it. Can any scientist answer this question?
You'd probably be really interested to watch people "ratting" with terriers. They are often used in city landscapes as well. It's kind of brutal but way more ethical and healthy for the environment than using poisons or pesticides.
You watch ONE video of a great blue heron eating a live animal, and youtube brings ALL the great blue heron eating a live animal videos to your feed.
To your FEED haha
IKR!!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes
this applies to everything and it's very annoying.
I watched one video of a cute bunny eating a flower the other day. I regret ever doing that.
You click one video of a topic once and you're getting related videos for weeks.
You click not interested on a topic a hundred times, youtube keeps sending more your way.
Cretaceous period never ended, son.
@Melvin Shine Yep. And.... that's a rap(tor).
@@rannxerox1644 I'm craning my neck to see your point.
clever girl...
@@rannxerox1644 cool name. Heavy Metal was a cool mag
UK BB Heron thinking it was just me.
People assume that Herons, Cranes and Egrets are graceful birds, and they are Magnificent birds in flight. But they are also top predators on land, as you just witnessed. They can also swallow their siblings whole in the nest, while the parent looks on approvingly.
They're the closest living thing to a t-rex hunting.
That is horrifying!
With the price of food going up, I may have to learn how to do that.
That is effing hilarious!
Please skin and cook it before swallowing it whole.
😂😂😂👍
Top comment! 😂
Things & Stuff-That's a great idea!
The heron was so still for first 15 seconds that i touched my screen if it is paused or what 👍👍
Lol
Nothing like a large rodent to beef up the legs.
Someone answer the phone for Christ's sake!
ExEssex : (HAHA) I bet that was the whistle on a lighthouse......
Ok, got it!
It a call from the wife of the poor guy being swallowed.
Lol its a fog horn. They are on light houses and jetties.
Christ hears all our prays!
Gopher. I wish one of these birds visited my backyard regularly.
He didn't leave any mess at the breakfast table, but I don't have a clue how he managed to fly after that meal.
You can see the dinosaur in him that would do the exact same to humans if he was bigger...
We have several blue heron tree nests on our property, amazing birds to watch! We call them the Pterodactyl’s
We too, here in Belgium, having a couple of nests across the street, call them Pterodactyls.
@@mtuz8356 I don't know. It's just too far from my place (50 m and in the top of the trees).
how about pelicans it literally eat other small birds
@@mtuz8356 Only the ones who had to deliver the eggs. Fuckin' hurts and nobody's gonna make them go through THAT shit again. The heron husbands don't give a damn. Drunk half the time.
I have the herons next to my lake. Patient hunters with a brutal beak attack.
That is a big gopher!!! Good job!!
Can you imagine being that gopher? One second you're minding your own business, and the next thing you know you're in the jaws of a giant pterodactyl. After a few endless minutes of terror, you're then sliding down a dark narrow channel, getting crushed, and then into a pool of stomach acid, where you are then slowly disintegrated and digested.
At first I checked my internet connection because video wasn't moving and than I realised the beauty of Nature.. Nice video 👌👌
Looked like a muskrat. And it looks like that wasn't the first time the heron had done that.
What makes a muskrat guard his musk?
@@ohger1 Courage!
@@kennethpaquin6692 you said it!
Pro canoe marathon racer when i lived in Alpena, Mich. Trained on the Thunder Bay River there from Heron Rd. to town--10 mile plus run--. Always spooked the Blue Heron, the a mile down stream kicked it up again, this time returning upstream to its favorite spot. Same bird magnificent every time on that practice run.
And here I thought they only ate fish and small crabs. 😳
That looks (or looked) like a gopher
. I recognized the campsite and the echo of the fog horn
That should keep him going for a couple of days
How do you know it’s a him?
I think I just learned a new meaning of “food porn”.
When you just have an emergency but no one is answering the 911 lol
Wow! Excellent video! That is not a vole, but is instead a Botta's Pocket Gopher (Thomomys bottae).
I see a few herons a day and I have never seen them snag a rodent or even swallow anything that big. Sandhill cranes are the omnivores here in the midwest.
Nice job with the camerawork. That's an incredible animal enjoying a nice tasty rat for lunch. Thanks for sharing.
@Older General Skywalker was gonna say "that's too big to be a rat"
its a gopher
So I’m guessing a gopher is a marsupial...??
@@iceman18ize no?
I was actually being an ass... My point was if anyone looked up geomyidae, whether it’s compared to a sand shrew or a sewer rat, the side by side similarities are narrow enough for the second comment in this thread that I responded to initially to be useless...
Wow. That heron is a champion swallower.
That was a very large gopher.
Muskrat
@@ggggcaaamb5813 Pocket Gopher.
A gopher bear?
"Was"
" Caddyshack" size 🤣🤣
The gopher’s wtf moment.
And his last!
That was awesome! should have zoomed in after the catch.
Rodent didn't know death was staring at it..
Reminds me of a dude I once sat next to in Mississippi as he consumed his meal...
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, that was probably me. Damned good sangwich that..
The acuity of vision is amazing!
If you see them near a riverside, leave them alone, they’re usually catching rats and fish.
@divorcedme so will the humans
@divorcedme false people will decimate wildlife everwhere they go.
How did anything get to evolve into anything bigger with these things around
Numbers
Quickly!!!
rabbits kept them busy
0:53 Dude's like : "Hey man you don't have to do this, i'm not even that tasty"
Protein, rather than taste is all needed
Used a tripod ?! Thank you for that!
Wonder what the biting force of a heron is...
One stops at the pond in my yard a few times every week in the summer and eats the frogs.
That’s amazing! I only see them eating lizards 🦎 out here in SoCal.
Pardon me, do you have any grey poupon?
I had no idea a heron would eat anything except fish.
Saw a great blue heron do the very same thing in San Francisco's Golden Gate park a couple of years ago...the pocket gopher never knew what hit it.
Ive seen more heron's catch gophers then cats
Nice! still, steady camerawork, captured something rarely seen. Cool shot, cool bird.
Dang! He didn't even use the grill nearby!
Wonder where that says I can hear a lighthouse in the background
Geez! I watched one GBH swallow a brewife (river Herring) whole...alive! That thing squiggled, writhed, and thrashed the whole way down that long throat. Of course, the GBH was unfazed. Incredible bird.Thanks!
seems like that rodent took being captured pretty lightly
Herons are just giant stomachs!
Thought he was going to take his picnic on the table. Sounds like that is a beach with a fog signal sounding on a jetty or some such.
I think the heron tried choking the rat but it was swallowed alive.Respect!
Nah, the Heron used its beak to compress the rodents chest to suffocate it before eating it. If it were still alive it would have clawed the Heron's throat and gullet, which would probably have resulted in the Heron dieing from specis from the dirty internal wound. Every time it puts the rodent on the ground it's readjusting its grip to better compress the rodents chest.
An excellent and natural way to thin down the rodent population.
Wow, incredible catch on film, mate. No water to wash it down...hmm. The rodent seemed to be dead when the heron put it on the ground. I was trying to find the point at which it died.
That’s literally like a dinosaur lol
There's another video of 2 blue herons eating pocket gophers at Golden Gate Park. That rodent looks a lot like the gophers in that other video.
The gopher at the went limp ..it said f**k it I'm dead!
MillerMeteor74 .. Yes, definitely looks like a gopher, stubby tail . Amazing though, never knew herons ate mammals.
@@BrendaRWyatt Me neither.
MillerMeteor74 .. I just subscribed to your page. Love the videos I have watched there this morning. 😃
@@BrendaRWyatt Thank you.
He made no use of the available bbq?
Why does the heron not pick up the phone?
Once saw a heron dive 10 feet deep to get a skein of salmon roe. Twice. Flsps underwater like a cormorant
I saw a photo of an xray in National Geographic one time of a heron or an egret that, unfortunately, swallowed the gopher before it died. The gopher was chewing its way out of the stomach before both rodent and bird died.
SkydiverClassC ... What a traumatic event that must have been for both. Amazing to capture nature in it’s true environment.
Cave man got his idea of making a spear from the heron
Frickin sweet. Herons are excellent.
And this is only the breakfast! 🐹🐁🐭😍
blue herons will eat almost anything, snakes, rabbits, squirrels, ducks, you name it
Dave Thank you Dave, I never realized that . Learned something new today.
Awesome Vid!
Wait, I thought birds only ate bird seed.
Well, small birds mostly eat seeds (or insects). Larger birds need larger things ;)
what about gulls ? they love a fish supper....... ?
@@raymondo162 Haha, glad you mention gulls. Yes, they usually eat fish, but as CZcams taught me, they also eat rabbits, snakes, sparrows... pretty much anything that fits in their throat^^ Just like herons as it seems.
While bowhunting I sat in a treestand and watched blue herons catch and swallow blue crabs pointed shell and all. Sometimes they would shake the hell out of the crab to get rid of the legs. Amazing what they can swallow whole.
Omg.....wow..... gotta feel for th little guy as it’s a pretty horrific way to die....but wot a hunter that bird is ! Jesus! 😳
He stabbed the heck outta him
Without any ketchup?
looks like a muskrat
That is no Vole. Ground squirrel or gopher perhaps. Impressive.
Gopher.
Does he hire himself out to de-gopher lawns?
rough being on the low end of the food chain.
I have this cartoon I drew in high school. Its a stork trying to swallow a frog. The head and half the body of the frog is down the birds throat and the frogs front legs are grabbing the stork around the throat. Preventing him from being swallowed. I wrote at the top, NEVER GIVE UP
No ketchup or mustard?
Now to steal that human's beer to wash down my dinner.
I'm a human!
Rodent made fun of Heron for skipping leg day.
"Darn this stupid food chain thing!"
Just be glad they aren't 9 foot tall
Good roughage for the GI tract.
That’s one good sized gofer. “ delicious and nutritious “
Are rats good for Keto diets?
Nailed that gopher! I need blue herons.
I bet the rodent thought that was a plastic rental bird.
1 swift blow to the head and that gopher was out cold
Imagine huge dinosaurs still existing... terrifying... just gulping down something alive and whole.... 😱😬
Hun bill done the street just got swallowed
At one point it's thinking, "Maybe I should have fired up the fire ring first." 🙄
That rodent forgot to pay the rent
If you look close you can see the meal kicking in his throat.
Imagine if the dinosaurs were still alive.
They are. It is one.
In scientific nomenclature there is no longer such things as birds. They are called avian dinosaurs.
They are from the therapod family line. Like T-rex and Velociraptors
We be on their menu if evolution was true dino would evolved not die out.
Blue Jay Aves ____ Dino did evolve. They're called birds.
@@burlatsdemontaigne6147 andaliens did come and planted the first human seeds will you believe that too???
That looks like my pet hamster Mr. Belmont.
A little salt and pepper ,
and we're good ...
Heron is a badass hunter.
I wonder if these blue heron make good pets....because I could use one patrolling my backyard. Damn gophers/moles wreak havoc back there!!
I think it was a muskrat
That's some kind of spalax/blesmol, not a vole; voles are pretty small. You can tell it's some kind of spalax/blesmol by it's size and it's weird exposed teeth.
That's a case of massive indigestion right there.... Mylanta required.... 😂
Dinosaurs vs mammals
Muscrat?
isnt it weird to think that this is basically what it looked like when dinosaurs (which as we now know looked a LOT like birds {at least some of them did} ate our very own ancestors?
I do WONDER does the Heron have any sense of smell? That rodent defecated all over the place and the Heron thinks nothing of it. Can any scientist answer this question?
DD
That bird is amazing. I need one in my neighborhood. I wonder if they eat feral cats.
Unless you have a koi pond like I do, then they are your worst nightmare.
@@michaeld2730: I imagine so.
Lol that bird would never go hungry in my old city too🙄🤦🏾♀️😅😅
Feral cats are good for getting rid of mice and rats in your neighborhood!
@@The_Cannabis_Connoisseur ...and millions of native birds and mammals.
wonder how it would do in a subway area (going on the assumption you had one that ignored humans); would it seek and kill rodents?
You'd probably be really interested to watch people "ratting" with terriers. They are often used in city landscapes as well. It's kind of brutal but way more ethical and healthy for the environment than using poisons or pesticides.