[EBB Sightings] Great Blue Heron's lunch menu

mrbit at aol.com wrote:

> I've always seen Great Blue Herons lunching on small fish but never
> on squirrels.  Bon appetite.

Yes, it's an odd idea - but they do add mammal to the menu. During the 
big vole bloom a couple of years ago, whole fields in the Livermore area 
were almost shoulder to shoulder Swainson's Hawks (which is what drew me 
out there) and other sorts of hawks, along with Great Blue Herons, Great 
Egrets, Ravens, and just about anything else in the area that likes a 
lot of protein with lunch and doesn't expect to snag it out of the air.

It was an odd sort of peaceable kingdom, to see all those raptors out 
there ignoring each other's company, all snarfing down voles about as 
fast as they could lower and raise their heads....

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