What do Great Blue Herons, North America’s largest species of herons, eat? Because they feed in a variety of both freshwater and saltwater habitats, their diet is richly varied. Great Blue Herons dine on small fish, crabs, shrimp, mice, rats, voles, frogs, salamanders, turtles, gophers, snakes, many species of small waterbirds including ducks and ducklings, and insects.
How many Great Blue Herons do you see in the photo above? I thought there was only one in the shot, until returning to my office and had a good look at the scene.
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What do Great Blue Herons, North America’s largest species of herons, eat? Because they feed in a variety of both freshwater and saltwater habitats, their diet is richly varied. Great Blue Herons dine on small fish, crabs, shrimp, mice, rats, voles, frogs, salamanders, turtles, gophers, snakes, many species of small waterbirds including ducks and ducklings, and insects.
How many Great Blue Herons do you see in the photo above? I thought there was only one in the shot, until returning to my office and had a good look at the scene.
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Three????
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Yes I only see three, too.
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I see four! Do I win a prize 🙂
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You have to tell us where #4 is, I only see three.
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I may need some carrots or vitamin A? But, based on some floating or swimming necks it could be well over or close to 20? of them in water- “(While Swimming Feeding, a “heron floats or swims on the surface of the water stabbing at or
picking up prey).”
Dave :-O
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Good one Dave, but the floating necks are Cormorants. I think there are three but Anonymous sees four.
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