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.
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...
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.
@divorcedme Er, no they don't. The O.P. made an ignorant comment though IMO, to which you have gone slightly off topic. the post wasn't about domestication versus wild nature. "Nature is cold" - well how else should a heron catch its meal than with it's beak. Grumpy Munchkin is being anthropomorphic. Nature just is what it is, everything evolved to fill it's particular niche without the need for any sentiment. That's a human trait. Where the opposable thumbs come in. Whether you believe in evolution or not - we are a part of nature; we share its DNA. The fact that we have opposable thumbs has allowed us to far surpass all other species allowing us to sit in our cosy homes squabbling on youtube posts. Isn't that awesome? With our higher brain and level of consciousness and self awareness we can be warm hearted and we can be cold hearted - but also we can have hearts far colder than any of the 'lower' creatures. Just look at the sickness in the world and tell me that humans don't have the gold medal out of all species for our propensity towards cruelty. To other creatures and to each other.
@divorcedme wow! You floored me. I'm so used to people arguing for the hell of it, or they feel butt hurt coz you picked them up on something. Have a great day.
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.
@@raymondo162 Haha, glad you mention gulls. Yes, they usually eat fish, but as RUclips taught me, they also eat rabbits, snakes, sparrows... pretty much anything that fits in their throat^^ Just like herons as it seems.
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
The heron tries to break the rodent's neck or strangle it first. If the heron swallowed the rodent alive, the rodent would only live for a few minutes- possibly only 1 minute. There's no air in a stomach.
@daAnder71 We had a heron that would always come eat our fish from our pond. We tried using fishing string to cover it but that didn't work, it was too smart. Then one day I caught him fishing and gave him a couple shots with a paintball gun and he never came back. Sorry nature, my fish are exempt from your food chain.
You can see it still alive and trying to wriggle free, which is why the heron keeps clenching and shifting it around, so it will die and he can swallow it
LaughingDove I’m afraid if it had been a reflex neuronal response (from a spinal break), there would have been a lot more thrashing, also the movement would have been restricted to the back legs. You can see the gopher’s head turning to look around one last time before the final plunge...
The rodent apparently just accepted its fate. Didn't even struggle. Weird. It's obviously still alive while being swallowed. If that was me, I'd be gnawing and chewing on that heron's throat and shit on the way down...
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.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but that looks staged. The rodent was conveniently just out of camera site and barley twitched. If you catch one in a trap the little bugger kicks up a racket
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.
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!
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.
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!
Nothing like a large rodent to beef up the legs.
The heron was so still for first 15 seconds that i touched my screen if it is paused or what 👍👍
Lol
You can see the dinosaur in him that would do the exact same to humans if he was bigger...
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!
Gopher. I wish one of these birds visited my backyard regularly.
That is a big gopher!!! Good job!!
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.
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.
And here I thought they only ate fish and small crabs. 😳
That should keep him going for a couple of days
How do you know it’s a him?
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...
That was a very large gopher.
Muskrat
@@ggggcaaamb5813 Pocket Gopher.
A gopher bear?
"Was"
" Caddyshack" size 🤣🤣
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!
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! 😳
I need one that eats cats, so they stop capping in my yard.
I need one that swallows my neighbours head first and alive and forever.
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right sentence is a EAT one CAT...
no need a letter -S-...
what wrong with the cat
Who cares.
you need hawks and eagles
Ive seen more heron's catch gophers then cats
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..
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.
He stabbed the heck outta him
How did anything get to evolve into anything bigger with these things around
Numbers
Quickly!!!
rabbits kept them busy
The gopher’s wtf moment.
And his last!
An excellent and natural way to thin down the rodent population.
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.
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.
One stops at the pond in my yard a few times every week in the summer and eats the frogs.
I think I just learned a new meaning of “food porn”.
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.
Nice! still, steady camerawork, captured something rarely seen. Cool shot, cool bird.
Rodent didn't know death was staring at it..
Bye bye gopher
Rodent made fun of Heron for skipping leg day.
That’s one good sized gofer. “ delicious and nutritious “
There is a girl I used to work with that could gobble them down like that,..... don't ask me how I know.
And this is only the breakfast! 🐹🐁🐭😍
Nature is so cold. Thank god for opposable thumbs.
Factory farming is pretty cold. Just for starters.
Oh yeah. Humans are so wonderful.
We don't kill animals.
We purchase pieces of them to cook.
@divorcedme Er, no they don't. The O.P. made an ignorant comment though IMO, to which you have gone slightly off topic. the post wasn't about domestication versus wild nature.
"Nature is cold" - well how else should a heron catch its meal than with it's beak. Grumpy Munchkin is being anthropomorphic. Nature just is what it is, everything evolved to fill it's particular niche without the need for any sentiment. That's a human trait. Where the opposable thumbs come in. Whether you believe in evolution or not - we are a part of nature; we share its DNA. The fact that we have opposable thumbs has allowed us to far surpass all other species allowing us to sit in our cosy homes squabbling on youtube posts. Isn't that awesome? With our higher brain and level of consciousness and self awareness we can be warm hearted and we can be cold hearted - but also we can have hearts far colder than any of the 'lower' creatures. Just look at the sickness in the world and tell me that humans don't have the gold medal out of all species for our propensity towards cruelty. To other creatures and to each other.
@divorcedme wow! You floored me. I'm so used to people arguing for the hell of it, or they feel butt hurt coz you picked them up on something. Have a great day.
@divorcedme shows you have a healthy ego then. 😁👍
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.
Wow. That heron is a champion swallower.
Does he hire himself out to de-gopher lawns?
My last girlfriend could swallow like that.
Her phone number.....PLEASE!!!
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I know!!!
I bet.
Dayuuum...
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.
Isn’t anybody going to comment that Bodega Bay is known for killer birds?
The Birds is coming.
Dinosaurs vs mammals
Too large to be a vole. Voles are mouse-sized.
Muskrat?
@@MarianaTrench6699 No, they have long tails like rats. This is some kind of gopher
Dayyyymm nature you scurry
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 RUclips taught me, they also eat rabbits, snakes, sparrows... pretty much anything that fits in their throat^^ Just like herons as it seems.
crush its' chest til it suffocates then down the hatch!
Is that what they do? I was wondering what kept it from clawing it’s way out of the stomach ALIEN style. 😬
@pitbullfiend5
they use both methods, sometimes the back doesn't break, but a crushed chest never fails
Dang! He didn't even use the grill nearby!
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’s amazing! I only see them eating lizards 🦎 out here in SoCal.
I thought birb were gonna sit at picnic table and eat with knife and fork.
rough being on the low end of the food chain.
Now to steal that human's beer to wash down my dinner.
I'm a human!
A little salt and pepper ,
and we're good ...
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can the rodent alive in the heron belly stomach...
how long rodent would be die
The heron tries to break the rodent's neck or strangle it first.
If the heron swallowed the rodent alive, the rodent would only live for a few minutes- possibly only 1 minute. There's no air in a stomach.
If it is still alive a rodent could cause a lot of internal damage, Sharpe claws and teeth. I've seen a rat burrow through a dead badger in seconds.
@@Dilopho
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thank explain...
the stomach have the acid that can kill a rodent
@@nickwilliams1065
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That looks (or looked) like a gopher
. I recognized the campsite and the echo of the fog horn
Herons are just giant stomachs!
I don't like Hellrons but I hate rats even more.
I had no idea a heron would eat anything except fish.
looks like a muskrat
Too nice a day to die. Wonder how many lbs of food a day those birds have to eat?
daAnder71 would like to see a Koi pond video. Going to search for one.
@daAnder71 We had a heron that would always come eat our fish from our pond. We tried using fishing string to cover it but that didn't work, it was too smart. Then one day I caught him fishing and gave him a couple shots with a paintball gun and he never came back. Sorry nature, my fish are exempt from your food chain.
Used a tripod ?! Thank you for that!
"Darn this stupid food chain thing!"
Just be glad they aren't 9 foot tall
Whatever is was, the bird probably killed it on the initial lung forward with it’s sharp beak.
You can see it still alive and trying to wriggle free, which is why the heron keeps clenching and shifting it around, so it will die and he can swallow it
@@VideoGuy232 The kicking was probably a reflex. A lunge like that would likely break the critter's neck.
that muskrat will die when stomach acid kills it. he was alive the entire time
LaughingDove I’m afraid if it had been a reflex neuronal response (from a spinal break), there would have been a lot more thrashing, also the movement would have been restricted to the back legs. You can see the gopher’s head turning to look around one last time before the final plunge...
Took out the gopher and didn't even have to destroy a golf course to do it!
Good roughage for the GI tract.
Frickin sweet. Herons are excellent.
Imagine huge dinosaurs still existing... terrifying... just gulping down something alive and whole.... 😱😬
Hun bill done the street just got swallowed
That was awesome! should have zoomed in after the catch.
That dude needs to stop skipping leg day.
Can't be too mad it him/she deserved that meal!!
Wow! Excellent video! That is not a vole, but is instead a Botta's Pocket Gopher (Thomomys bottae).
I wonder if these blue heron make good pets....because I could use one patrolling my backyard. Damn gophers/moles wreak havoc back there!!
Ok back to swallowing my sub sandwich. Mmmm extra meat.
I was like what if it scratches his insides out den he chokes da mf to death 😅
The rodent apparently just accepted its fate. Didn't even struggle. Weird. It's obviously still alive while being swallowed. If that was me, I'd be gnawing and chewing on that heron's throat and shit on the way down...
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.
Have to do new weight and balance before flying home.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but that looks staged. The rodent was conveniently just out of camera site and barley twitched. If you catch one in a trap the little bugger kicks up a racket
Pssh, I seen females shallow much bigger
Get in my belly !
A vole?....lol. Vole is small...looked like a young nutria maybe or a giant rat.
At one point it's thinking, "Maybe I should have fired up the fire ring first." 🙄
Lmao I wonder what goes through the preys head. I mean it's not dead, Is it, when its being swallowed? Doesn't it scratch and try to crawl out?
Wow that was pretty large... it looked clean though.... not like a rat at all...
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Gopher still alive @ 0:54, he knows he's fucked @ 1:18
If I was there, that bird would be done, friggin things are a menace!
Wonder why it doesn't start scratching like mad 1:30
When you just have an emergency but no one is answering the 911 lol
I wonder if the rodent still moving inside of the bird😕
Yep until the belly acid kills it
Have to say I feel sorry for the rodent :)
That was Trump devouring Joe Bidan
Wonder where that says I can hear a lighthouse in the background
Poor wee beastie... I hope it's death was instantaneous.
HEADSHOT!