@@ExplorationEverythingWe know that life is nice, and that predators play a vital role in the ecosystem. We also know not to hate the heron for following its instincts. But it doesn’t make the death any less gruesome.🤷
@@thanosdoomjuggernaut2846 true if they stayed as primal t-rex, but what if they did exist, but they have evolved into t-rex bots predators with advanced technologies. I rather they evolved into a gentle giants that helps evolve and care for vulnerable cells like humans who holds humanities.
Thanks! I’d agree, it probably just needed it to stop moving enough to swallow. The neck swinging and water boarding probably partially subdued it nevertheless. Before it used the water to make for an easier swallow.
@@ExplorationEverything Ground Squirrels breathe at 100-150 breaths per minute normally. This guy was probably hyperventilating at 3 breaths per second so a short dip is enough to take in water and while not fatal, definitely debilitating. Also to lube the meal for going down the gullet.
@@onemynde8915 Sure, but I was there, and watched the squirrel go from screaming to silent and limp. The lil thing wasn’t moving, wasn’t screaming, and was passed out or dead before being ingested hence the comical commentary of a heron drowning a squirrel. Drowning a squirrel takes 1-2 min per multiple random sources, so it probably got drowned in this long process of wetting the fur. The main point is that the bird is smart enough to manipulate its food with water anyways regardless of what happened👍🏼 thanks for the insight!
The water makes it easier to swallow - not to drown it. It is still alive when swallowed, though stunned by the beak grip. It is tossing it around to get it in best swallow position.
The water can do a bunch of things still. The squirrel was panicked and breathing hard before enterning the water. It's definitely not doing better when cold water enters its lungs. It can put the rodent into shock if not actually drown it.
A bit of both. Being water boarded while having your spine snapped around is quite the combo. The prototool behavior I was referring to is the heron using water to make it easier to swallow. Basic food manipulation.
once in my life I was on a very very low level of society. the church had to give me food. a friend then gave me little pig to eat. about a foot and a half high. as I chased it in the pen to do it in, it was a male, it instinctively knew its end was there. squealing. I felt empathy, and did not want to shoot it. it gave up and put its head between its feet. I did not want to do it in, Then, my stomach growled, I had little food, when my stomach growled, all empathy disappeared. I was totally surprised.
I just learned something! I had no idea that the Great Blue Heron would hunt small rodents and squirrels. I had, up to this time, thought fish, snakes and frogs were its game. Thank you. Oh, for those who thought "... Ahhhh, the poor squirrel...". This is life. It happens daily and each every second in each day.
It was a learning experience for me too😅 they have been known to go after ducklings or other small birds during spring breeding. They’ll go after anything nutritional regardless of how “cute” if it’s easy pickings.
@@nebsonso do you suggest that we should intervene in ecosystems because from our perspective its sad when a cute looking rodent gets eaten by a predator that specifically evolved to hunt such animals? Im sure removing predators from local ecosystems couldnt possibly have any ramifications….
This is basically how asdarcyds or the giant pterosaurs hunted. We used to always see them as fish eaters, but these things were the size of giraffes but could fly. They most likely just ate smaller dinosaurs or their babies. Can you imagine that living in a world not only plagued in the ocean but your not even safe from the skies in the Crutaceous?
@billlynn8256 Yeah I was at the field museum and three different dinosaur strolling parks. They had these life sized replicas. I'm not joking they're the size of giraffes and their heads are twice the size of me I'm 6'3!! I used to think you would be safe if you got off the ground or in a tree from dinosaurs if you got stuck in Jurassic Park, but no! A flying giraffe will just fly down to eat you anyway.
Man, never thought I'd see an Animals of farthing wood reference. Whistler was an all around good character. Poor bird, his partner/wife nagged him to near death.
We have Great Blue Herons in San Francisco, and seeing them hunt gophers and squirrels in Golden Gate Park is pretty common. The park's main Lake has been renamed Great Blue Heron Lake as they like to hang out on a small island, high in the trees. My favorite GBH sighting was at Fort Funston - once a coastal artillery battery and now a park. The army loved to put in Ice Plant to hold the sand in place and now large areas are overgrown with a thick cover of it. Gophers and ground squirrels live under it and you occasionally see a GBH standing in it, looking like it's standing in a pond looking into the water, but I'm pretty sure it's waiting patiently at the entrance to a tunnel.
@donttuga9310 Correction; Birds are the only living Dinosaurs left. They aren’t actually the descendants. Secondly, some fossils indicate that the earliest bird ancestors are possibly from the middle - late Jurassic; while the definitive earliest birds are from the Early - Late Cretaceous. So birds were around during the time of the non-avian dinosaurs & have survived to modern day.
@@hcollins9941 I only said descendant to be kind, as I know plenty to people who refuse to accept that birds are, in fact, dinosaurs(same people I mentioned also refuse evidence that we humans evolved from an ape being, despite the fact our DNA is 99% the same as a gorilla) I wasn't trying to discredit science, I was simply making it simple. If that makes sense.
@@hcollins9941 Don't worry you weren't rude(at least I didn't think you were) and I understand you wanting to set the record straight with accuracy, I totally agree with you on that. After all, there's always time for scientific accuracy my friend.
"The rock-ribbed mountains, the tempestuous sea, the scorching desert, the myriad weeds and insects and wild beasts that infest the earth, and the noblest man, are all one. Each and all are helpless against the cruelty and immutability of the resistless processes of Nature. Whichever way man may look upon the earth, he is oppressed with the suffering incident to life. It would almost seem as though the earth had been created with malignity and hatred. If we look at what we are pleased to call the lower animals, we behold a universal carnage. We speak of the seemingly peaceful woods, but we need only look beneath the surface to be horrified by the misery of that underworld. Hidden in the grass and watching for its prey is the crawling snake which swiftly darts upon the toad or mouse and gradually swallows it alive; the hapless animal is crushed by the jaws and covered with slime, to be slowly digested in furnishing a meal. The snake knows nothing about sin or pain inflicted upon another; he automatically grabs insects and mice and frogs to preserve his life. The spider carefully weaves his web to catch the unwary fly, winds him into the fatal net until paralyzed and helpless, then drinks his blood and leaves him an empty shell. The hawk swoops down and snatches a chicken and carries it to its nest to feed its young. The wolf pounces on the lamb and tears it to shreds. The cat watches at the hole of the mouse until the mouse cautiously comes out, then with seeming fiendish glee he plays with it until tired of the game, then crunches it to death in his jaws. The beasts of the jungle roam by day and night to find their prey; the lion is endowed with strength of limb and fang to destroy and devour almost any animal that it can surprise or overtake. There is no place in the woods or air or sea where all life is not a carnage of death in terror and agony. Each animal is a hunter, and in turn is hunted, by day and night. No landscape is so beautiful or day so balmy but the cry of suffering and sacrifice rends the air. When night settles down over the earth the slaughter is not abated. Some creatures see best at night, and the outcry of the dying and terrified is always on the wind. Almost all animals meet death by violence and through the most agonizing pain. With the whole animal creation, there is nothing like a peaceful death. Nowhere in nature is there the slightest evidence of kindness, of consideration, or a feeling for the suffering and the weak, except in the narrow circle of brief family life. Man furnishes no exception to the rule. He seems to add the treachery and deceit that the other animals in the main do not practice, to all the other cruelties that move his life. " Clarence Darrow
i like how there are mad people in the comments. Like bro, you saw the video title and thumbnail. Why are you here? You being mad isn't gonna magically bring the animal back. 😅 getting upset and commenting, you're ironically helping this channel. 😅
Not everyone enjoys watching videos where animals die, but for many people, these videos are educational, offering insight into the natural behaviors and activities of wildlife. If it's not for you, it's simple-just don't watch!
Beautiful camera work and brilliant information on all species.Marlin Perkins Sr.would have been very proud of you young man. Keep up the good work and my you prosper on all your endeavors.
Cranes also hunt a lot of lizards & snakes. They stalk farm fields inland, where there are no bodies of water, especially when the harvesters are running. In the central valley in California they follow right behind the combine harvesters picking off reptiles that get exposed as the crops are cut. There can be 20 or 30 cranes behind a harvester as it’s running. Almost right up under it.
The egrets and GBH's on my place will hardly let me get within 50 yards of them. Mine are very skittish. It was very surprising to see this one let people get so close.
I had a roommate who was Vegan for a while, they're really not like the stereotype. She was quite aware of how nature works, brutality and all, and knew to have a gun when going deep into the bush. Her main issue was with how factory farming is conducted, and she didn't want to directly sponsor what she saw as industrialized suffering. It's important not to see social media influencers as represented of whatever group they're LARPing as.
only a young sandiegan would compare that to dipping a tortilla in salsa...but great video otherwise. had no idea they ate red meat and not only fish...
What is the risk to stomach and neck while eating something alive? I've been bitten by a squirrel and they can take a finger probably. Imagine being bitten and clawed by your meal from the inside out. I saw a Komodo dragon eating a goat whole and alive. You could hear it screaming inside the lizard. Any time frame on suffocation or stomach acids dissolving the prey?
Herons seem to try to disable their prey as much as possible before consuming them. They tend to vigorously shake most prey which breaks that prey’s vertebrae sometimes so that they cannot wriggle or fight back as much. They do have strong acids but will regurgitate the bones
whoa! I was shocked that that big bird didn't fly away when the people and their dog strolled past. I live in Florida and they always fly away whenever I happen to walk nearby the runoff ponds behind our home.
It might be because this bird lives by this county park that’s heavily trafficked with pedestrians and skateboarders. It could be used to people or just focused on getting a nice meal. Herons by the beach/estuaries tend to be much more wary of my presence.
Lindo Lake does have a large bird population. I got there fairly often on walks around the lake. They recently completed the second lake and it has a really nice trail that goes around it. This is a real urban park gem.
It's quite the gem indeed as well as one of my favorite places to go birding in San Diego, since it's so convenient and lesser explored by the birding community here. Great breeding grounds for many birds too
Probably chicken/goose if we're being honest. But it's illegal and pointless. Eat a domesticated bird that's safe/legal to consume or get a hunting license for appropriate fowl.
It’s one of the cooler birds to come by, especially when they’re hunting! Even when it’s just fish, they have some of the largest catches I’ve seen. Thanks for watching! I have a video of one eating a sting ray coming soon from a recent hike.
They eat fish (usually a lot larger fish than other birds), snakes, lizards, and even sting rays! This is all I’ve seen thus far… oh and the screaming squirrel😅
It's a county park in the middle of the city, with a skatepark and tennis courts with roads surrounding all sides. It has a lot of biodiversity even though it's quite urban
@@furyspec wow really?! It’s as if I already stated that as documented proto-tool behavior. Way to ruin comedic commentary 😂 make your own video if you’re lucky enough to catch this interaction, edit the video and get back to me with the link🙌🏽 hope it’s half as good
Haha yeah they have some behavioral similarities when hunting. The music used in the video is from epidemic sounds, (donvayei- lofi del pueblo and hallan- whatever to like)
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The poor squirrel didn’t even see it coming 🥲 the circle of life is vicious.
Vicious but life is also pretty nice 👍🏼
I agree! Sometimes you don’t know whether it’s a solid or a liquid, right?
@@ExplorationEverythingWe know that life is nice, and that predators play a vital role in the ecosystem. We also know not to hate the heron for following its instincts.
But it doesn’t make the death any less gruesome.🤷
And beautiful
It’s not vicious..interrupting the circle of life is vicious!
To small animals, terror birds never became extinct.
"Nature is so peaceful and beautiful"
Nature:
To small animals, T Rex is still very much ALIVE!
But to us humans, we can any of these terror birds.
@@unityforall-md4flWho cares…. to us humans we can eat a T-Rex easily, if they still existed.
@@thanosdoomjuggernaut2846 true if they stayed as primal t-rex, but what if they did exist, but they have evolved into t-rex bots predators with advanced technologies. I rather they evolved into a gentle giants that helps evolve and care for vulnerable cells like humans who holds humanities.
It didn't look to me like the bird was drowning the rodent, maybe just lubricating the meal to make it easier to swallow? Good video, though!
Thanks! I’d agree, it probably just needed it to stop moving enough to swallow. The neck swinging and water boarding probably partially subdued it nevertheless.
Before it used the water to make for an easier swallow.
@@ExplorationEverything Ground Squirrels breathe at 100-150 breaths per minute normally. This guy was probably hyperventilating at 3 breaths per second so a short dip is enough to take in water and while not fatal, definitely debilitating. Also to lube the meal for going down the gullet.
@@onemynde8915 Sure, but I was there, and watched the squirrel go from screaming to silent and limp. The lil thing wasn’t moving, wasn’t screaming, and was passed out or dead before being ingested hence the comical commentary of a heron drowning a squirrel. Drowning a squirrel takes 1-2 min per multiple random sources, so it probably got drowned in this long process of wetting the fur.
The main point is that the bird is smart enough to manipulate its food with water anyways regardless of what happened👍🏼 thanks for the insight!
Sauce 😋
Creatures can still sometimes damage herons when the bird swallows
Great blue heron is a massively underrated predator
Great blue herons are killing machines who kill anything even when they aren't hungry.
The water makes it easier to swallow - not to drown it. It is still alive when swallowed, though stunned by the beak grip. It is tossing it around to get it in best swallow position.
No, it's shaking it around to stun it
The water can do a bunch of things still.
The squirrel was panicked and breathing hard before enterning the water. It's definitely not doing better when cold water enters its lungs. It can put the rodent into shock if not actually drown it.
A bit of both. Being water boarded while having your spine snapped around is quite the combo. The prototool behavior I was referring to is the heron using water to make it easier to swallow. Basic food manipulation.
"...dips the squirrel in water like a tortilla chip in salsa." EEUUUWWWWW!
The Popeyes Biscuit of the animal kingdom
when you're hungry , there is no such thing as ''cute''
Pelicans, Seagulls and now Herons, every big bird eats like that now, XD
@@SHOIOTERBLOL!!! I wonder what all those taste like. Because they can’t do anything to me whatsoever.
@@thanosdoomjuggernaut2846 Then try to get one and prepare it so you can eat it
@@SHOIOTERB It’s called a shot-gun. I bet they all taste like chicken.
once in my life I was on a very very low level of society. the church had to give me food. a friend then gave me little pig to eat. about a foot and a half high. as I chased it in the pen to do it in, it was a male, it instinctively knew its end was there. squealing. I felt empathy, and did not want to shoot it. it gave up and put its head between its feet. I did not want to do it in, Then, my stomach growled, I had little food, when my stomach growled, all empathy disappeared. I was totally surprised.
Heron: 'Yo, this chicken nugget dry af! Ooh! Tomato Ketchup!' 😂
I just learned something! I had no idea that the Great Blue Heron would hunt small rodents and squirrels. I had, up to this time, thought fish, snakes and frogs were its game. Thank you.
Oh, for those who thought "... Ahhhh, the poor squirrel...". This is life. It happens daily and each every second in each day.
It was a learning experience for me too😅 they have been known to go after ducklings or other small birds during spring breeding. They’ll go after anything nutritional regardless of how “cute” if it’s easy pickings.
Naturalistic fallacy. More generally: no “is” can imply an “ought”.
@@nebsonso do you suggest that we should intervene in ecosystems because from our perspective its sad when a cute looking rodent gets eaten by a predator that specifically evolved to hunt such animals? Im sure removing predators from local ecosystems couldnt possibly have any ramifications….
@@ExplorationEverythingI seen Herons eat baby ducks.
What do you think the squirrel was saying?
So long, Simon! 😂
Adios Alvin!🫡😭🤣
Ta-ta, Theodore! 👋🏾
Girl squirrel (freeze at 2:16)
This is basically how asdarcyds or the giant pterosaurs hunted. We used to always see them as fish eaters, but these things were the size of giraffes but could fly.
They most likely just ate smaller dinosaurs or their babies. Can you imagine that living in a world not only plagued in the ocean but your not even safe from the skies in the Crutaceous?
I would never leave the cave.
@billlynn8256 Yeah I was at the field museum and three different dinosaur strolling parks. They had these life sized replicas. I'm not joking they're the size of giraffes and their heads are twice the size of me I'm 6'3!!
I used to think you would be safe if you got off the ground or in a tree from dinosaurs if you got stuck in Jurassic Park, but no! A flying giraffe will just fly down to eat you anyway.
The only giraffe-sized ones were quetzalcoatlus and hatzegopteryx tho
I knew that great blues had a varied diet I just didn't realize they were rodent eaters
Apparently they’ve been known to eat baby ducks too…
I used to think it was mostly fish n snakes.
They eat what ever they can swallow.
@@ExplorationEverything I've seen them hunting gophers in a field but don't know if they flew off to the nearby creek to help wash them down.
"Where's Alvin and Theodore? No comment!!! Well then, gurglegurglegurgle!!!"
😂😂😂
Very creamy of you...
Whistler is a lot more brutal than I remember in the Animals of Farthing Wood cartoon😂😂
Man, never thought I'd see an Animals of farthing wood reference. Whistler was an all around good character. Poor bird, his partner/wife nagged him to near death.
@@justinlapid2163 thanks dude. Grew up watching it as a kid in Nigeria 😂 Still Love it
@@orboakin8074 haha me too ! although it's hard to find a good copy of the series nowadays. Peace to all! And have a nice day
This hungry pterodactyl...😂😂
Great video.
@@ultimatez1 thanks! Definitely felt like I was watching a miniaturized dinosaur documentary in the making
LOL those Canadian honkers in the background noise look more like dinos.
Yeesh that’s pretty horrific. I didn’t realize they ate rodents that large.
We have Great Blue Herons in San Francisco, and seeing them hunt gophers and squirrels in Golden Gate Park is pretty common. The park's main Lake has been renamed Great Blue Heron Lake as they like to hang out on a small island, high in the trees. My favorite GBH sighting was at Fort Funston - once a coastal artillery battery and now a park. The army loved to put in Ice Plant to hold the sand in place and now large areas are overgrown with a thick cover of it. Gophers and ground squirrels live under it and you occasionally see a GBH standing in it, looking like it's standing in a pond looking into the water, but I'm pretty sure it's waiting patiently at the entrance to a tunnel.
66 million years later & this scenario hasn’t changed a bit!
Azhdarchids would be proud birds took over their lessons in hunting!
Birds are the dinosaur's descendants, so watching them is a good indication of how dinos really acted.
@donttuga9310
Correction; Birds are the only living Dinosaurs left. They aren’t actually the descendants.
Secondly, some fossils indicate that the earliest bird ancestors are possibly from the middle - late Jurassic; while the definitive earliest birds are from the Early - Late Cretaceous.
So birds were around during the time of the non-avian dinosaurs & have survived to modern day.
@@hcollins9941 I only said descendant to be kind, as I know plenty to people who refuse to accept that birds are, in fact, dinosaurs(same people I mentioned also refuse evidence that we humans evolved from an ape being, despite the fact our DNA is 99% the same as a gorilla) I wasn't trying to discredit science, I was simply making it simple. If that makes sense.
@donttuga9310
Gotcha! 👍
Wasn’t trying to sound rude so I apologize; I also completely agree with you.
@@hcollins9941 Don't worry you weren't rude(at least I didn't think you were) and I understand you wanting to set the record straight with accuracy, I totally agree with you on that. After all, there's always time for scientific accuracy my friend.
1:50 aww the blue herion and the squirrel are good friends ❤😊
3:10 - Alvin?! ALVIN!!!
😅😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Small mammals may be why the dinosaurs (raptors) survived.
Wow totally unexpected. For some reason the idea of the Heron eating fish doesn't bother me but the poor squirrel 😢
Like Kurt Cobain said, fish don't have feelings.
If snakes, lizards, and fish had vocal chords we’d probably feel for them too.
It’s the only time I’ve seen this happen so far though.
"The rock-ribbed mountains, the tempestuous sea, the scorching desert, the myriad weeds and insects and wild beasts that infest the earth, and the noblest man, are all one. Each and all are helpless against the cruelty and immutability of the resistless processes of Nature. Whichever way man may look upon the earth, he is oppressed with the suffering incident to life. It would almost seem as though the earth had been created with malignity and hatred. If we look at what we are pleased to call the lower animals, we behold a universal carnage. We speak of the seemingly peaceful woods, but we need only look beneath the surface to be horrified by the misery of that underworld. Hidden in the grass and watching for its prey is the crawling snake which swiftly darts upon the toad or mouse and gradually swallows it alive; the hapless animal is crushed by the jaws and covered with slime, to be slowly digested in furnishing a meal. The snake knows nothing about sin or pain inflicted upon another; he automatically grabs insects and mice and frogs to preserve his life. The spider carefully weaves his web to catch the unwary fly, winds him into the fatal net until paralyzed and helpless, then drinks his blood and leaves him an empty shell. The hawk swoops down and snatches a chicken and carries it to its nest to feed its young. The wolf pounces on the lamb and tears it to shreds. The cat watches at the hole of the mouse until the mouse cautiously comes out, then with seeming fiendish glee he plays with it until tired of the game, then crunches it to death in his jaws. The beasts of the jungle roam by day and night to find their prey; the lion is endowed with strength of limb and fang to destroy and devour almost any animal that it can surprise or overtake. There is no place in the woods or air or sea where all life is not a carnage of death in terror and agony. Each animal is a hunter, and in turn is hunted, by day and night. No landscape is so beautiful or day so balmy but the cry of suffering and sacrifice rends the air. When night settles down over the earth the slaughter is not abated. Some creatures see best at night, and the outcry of the dying and terrified is always on the wind. Almost all animals meet death by violence and through the most agonizing pain. With the whole animal creation, there is nothing like a peaceful death. Nowhere in nature is there the slightest evidence of kindness, of consideration, or a feeling for the suffering and the weak, except in the narrow circle of brief family life. Man furnishes no exception to the rule. He seems to add the treachery and deceit that the other animals in the main do not practice, to all the other cruelties that move his life. " Clarence Darrow
Imagine being eaten alive
Must be pretty claustrophobic, being digested in a bird's stomach.
And Dark
Start swimming in the ocean and see if you can experience that.
I saw that bird twice and wow! Majestic!
@@KishorTwist GBH are great looking birds. they’re one of my favorites.
We have a lot of sandhill cranes in my area. It's easy to imagine them as dinosaurs.
@@Walter-wo5sz that’s super cool for you! Those are amazing birds. I hope to see one soon
They do move in herds...
“Like a tortilla chip in salsa” is so unserious 😭😭😭
It went from a ground squirrel to a drowned squirrel real quick
underrated comment
i like how there are mad people in the comments. Like bro, you saw the video title and thumbnail. Why are you here? You being mad isn't gonna magically bring the animal back. 😅
getting upset and commenting, you're ironically helping this channel. 😅
Looks like Alvin can’t talk his way out of this one lol 😂
Yep Alvin bites the dust
The heron will be back for the rest of the squad
If this is Lindo Lake, I use to live right around the corner on Beechtree St in the early 2000’s….beautiful area, nice vid, thanks.
Thanks! It sure is a nice part of San Diego county. The lake has been worked on and has ongoing renovations.
One day you're the predator, next day the prey. That's mother nature
It’s quite the messy web but it has its beauty
Great camera work!
Thanks a lot! I’ll definitely have to practice more for better stability
True classic right here. Just a dinosaur eating a mammal
Luckily sapiens came way after the time those giants lived haha
Herons are the descendants of a bird group which called terror birds - the fearsome carnivores
And I thought they only ate fish.
The hot dog eating champs also dunk in water.
Snakes, stingrays, and even baby ducks😬 GBH are quite the voracious predators
I’ve seen a great blue heron eat a baby alligator before 😳
Woah that’s crazy! I hope to even see a baby alligator one day
They make great snacks as well as snakes in the Everglades. Opportunists.
Looks like a baby squirrel. Not 'chipmunk' as you mentioned
Yeah I made an accident while recording. I called it both in the video😂 filmed and recorded same day cause what I saw was crazy
“Like a tortilla chip in salsa”
😂😂😂
Cool how they act like a gyro scope, their head completely stable when moving!! Prehistoric looking animal. Animal food chain is violent!
Seriously, who enjoys watching this?
Not everyone enjoys watching videos where animals die, but for many people, these videos are educational, offering insight into the natural behaviors and activities of wildlife. If it's not for you, it's simple-just don't watch!
Dang didn't know they ate mammals😮‼️
".. like a totilla in red sauce..."
Alvin… ALVIN!!!
Looks scripted, you got my view
An attempt was made 😅 hopefully I’ll get better over time. Thanks for your time!
Beautiful camera work and brilliant information on all species.Marlin Perkins Sr.would have been very proud of you young man. Keep up the good work and my you prosper on all your endeavors.
Wow, thank you! That’s definitely a high bar to strive towards. I’ll keep on learning in the field and improving what I can share
3:38 "check off its " to do list" 😅😅😅😅
Heron is like "hey vegan's watch this"!
The reality of life. 😢
Comment un héron peut il ingurgité un écureuil ?j'ai toujours pensé qu'il ne ce nourriçais que de poissons, batraciens et autres insectes !😊
Cranes also hunt a lot of lizards & snakes. They stalk farm fields inland, where there are no bodies of water, especially when the harvesters are running. In the central valley in California they follow right behind the combine harvesters picking off reptiles that get exposed as the crops are cut. There can be 20 or 30 cranes behind a harvester as it’s running. Almost right up under it.
After watching The boy and the heron I'm not surprised.
I still need to watch that movie! Hope you liked it
I always thought they dipped them in water to make them easier to swallow.
They do! That’s part of their food manipulation. I’ve seen them dip squirrels, baby ducks, stingrays, and even a hummingbird once.
I thought the water was to act as a lubricant to get it down their throat.
The egrets and GBH's on my place will hardly let me get within 50 yards of them. Mine are very skittish. It was very surprising to see this one let people get so close.
Please No, Mr Heron! I have a family!
I'll be sure to tell them what happened. Gulp.
Be happy that modern dinosaurs are relatively small.
the irony is that actual pteranodons are closer to modern lizards than birds, i’d compare herons to raptors- they were probably just as brainy too!
Freakin' Maniraptoran theropods...
Geezuz, the horror. Kind of like how Joey Chestnut used to swallow hot dogs in Coney Island.
Dont show this to vegan activists
I had a roommate who was Vegan for a while, they're really not like the stereotype. She was quite aware of how nature works, brutality and all, and knew to have a gun when going deep into the bush. Her main issue was with how factory farming is conducted, and she didn't want to directly sponsor what she saw as industrialized suffering.
It's important not to see social media influencers as represented of whatever group they're LARPing as.
only a young sandiegan would compare that to dipping a tortilla in salsa...but great video otherwise. had no idea they ate red meat and not only fish...
Squirrels in nature have always seemed like a strange case to me
Dinosaur 1, cute little mammal 0. There are videos out there of herons using bread as bait to lure fish.
Dinosaurs didn't go extinct, they evolved.
What is the risk to stomach and neck while eating something alive? I've been bitten by a squirrel and they can take a finger probably. Imagine being bitten and clawed by your meal from the inside out. I saw a Komodo dragon eating a goat whole and alive. You could hear it screaming inside the lizard. Any time frame on suffocation or stomach acids dissolving the prey?
Herons seem to try to disable their prey as much as possible before consuming them. They tend to vigorously shake most prey which breaks that prey’s vertebrae sometimes so that they cannot wriggle or fight back as much. They do have strong acids but will regurgitate the bones
Birds are nasty things. Shrikes, pelicans, herons…
My crows ate squirrels somewhat regularly.
Pretty much most animals have no empathy or sympathy. But I do find that to be the case especially for birds and bugs
how much empathy and sympathy do you have for your food?
Dog walker mess up it first shot! By the way, concert is over
The heron doesn't see a cute squirrel. The heron sees a cute snack.
The bule heron just tried to clean his food before eating.
Gotta make sure ya food is clean 👍🏼😅 but the water has a lot of nasty “toxic” algae. Birds seem fine tho
No problem urban SoCal is infested with squirrels
Yu don't catch a blue heron hunting anything. You catch a blue heron hunting everything.
Why is the thumbnail edited like one of those floptok videos? 😂
That is obviously a squirrel not a chipmunk.
whoa! I was shocked that that big bird didn't fly away when the people and their dog strolled past. I live in Florida and they always fly away whenever I happen to walk nearby the runoff ponds behind our home.
It might be because this bird lives by this county park that’s heavily trafficked with pedestrians and skateboarders.
It could be used to people or just focused on getting a nice meal.
Herons by the beach/estuaries tend to be much more wary of my presence.
Reminds me of that vid of the pelican trying to nibble on that capybara
Those people walking the dog coc...I mean squirrel blocked him😅
😂I guess you could say that. It happens quite often
We exist in a very beautiful, but very savage garden.
"The Heron dips the chipmunk in water like a tortilla chip in salsa" LMAO
Dips it in the water like a
“tortilla chip is salsa”
This comparison is outta pocket
Impressive Strength in that Beak....!!!!!
I can't get within 50 yards of one of those... They take off
Are the blue herons for hire at a reasonable rate?
Too many squirrels around here...
Lindo Lake does have a large bird population. I got there fairly often on walks around the lake. They recently completed the second lake and it has a really nice trail that goes around it. This is a real urban park gem.
It's quite the gem indeed as well as one of my favorite places to go birding in San Diego, since it's so convenient and lesser explored by the birding community here. Great breeding grounds for many birds too
I wonder what the Great blue Heron tastes like. We humans are at THEE Top of the food chain.
Probably chicken/goose if we're being honest. But it's illegal and pointless. Eat a domesticated bird that's safe/legal to consume or get a hunting license for appropriate fowl.
Wow! We have a blue heron here at the lake every year, love watching this bird fish. I had no idea they hunted on land! Great video!
It’s one of the cooler birds to come by, especially when they’re hunting! Even when it’s just fish, they have some of the largest catches I’ve seen. Thanks for watching! I have a video of one eating a sting ray coming soon from a recent hike.
Isn't this an egret?
it's a Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias. Great egrets (fully white, yellow bill, and smaller) are technically also herons.
@@ExplorationEverything I get these confused a lot. Thanks. :)
I watched a starling eat a baby sparrow at my bird feeder once. It was pretty horrifying.
Oh dang, that’s pretty brutal. Especially since starlings are introduced and displace lots of native birds such as your example
Huh. I thought those herons were predominantly fishers. Go figure.
They eat fish (usually a lot larger fish than other birds), snakes, lizards, and even sting rays! This is all I’ve seen thus far… oh and the screaming squirrel😅
What is that horrific noise going on in the foreground? Is this lake on a highway?
It's a county park in the middle of the city, with a skatepark and tennis courts with roads surrounding all sides. It has a lot of biodiversity even though it's quite urban
Good on you to call out the people with loud vehicles.
He dips it in water like a tortillas with salsa...terrible example, it isn't for taste. He dips it so it goes down his throat easier.
@@furyspec wow really?! It’s as if I already stated that as documented proto-tool behavior. Way to ruin comedic commentary 😂 make your own video if you’re lucky enough to catch this interaction, edit the video and get back to me with the link🙌🏽 hope it’s half as good
The way it waggels is like a cat before it strikes. What is the name ifnthe back round music used?
Haha yeah they have some behavioral similarities when hunting.
The music used in the video is from epidemic sounds, (donvayei- lofi del pueblo and hallan- whatever to like)
@@ExplorationEverything Thank you.
Seen them eating ducklings quite a few times.. Seen sea gulls eat ducklings too!
I often go tide pooling and have seen a sea gull try to swallow an entire sea star!
Herons are pond dragons. Change my mind.
I won’t try to, I agree! haha
I won’t try to, I agree! haha
I like to see the chipmonks in my yard.