Is this for REAL ???

[riyazi]

Guess this is the best place to ask - saw this in the Metro today - was quite shocked ! This seems to have been discussed somewhere in 2006 in this post (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=180364&highlight=heron+rabbit)

Here is another website (http://www.blogosis.com/posts/odd/heron-eats-poor-little-bunny-186/) with the pics

Bird / Photoshop experts - is this for real ? Never heard of a heron eating something so big ? Also is that a Grey Heron ? or a GBH ?

Edit : Oh no - extremely sorry - this should have gone in to the Bird Talk forum - mods please move. thanks

[AllanWJ]

Hi riyazi

I believe it. Here's a link (http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/687172) to another post showing a GBH swallowing a fish that's apparently waaaaay too big for him. I snapped this a few weeks ago at a local marsh just before he flew off with it still stuck in his beak. Makes me wonder how close I should be getting to these birds. :) Sorry for the poor quality - it's nearly 100% cropped and low, brilliant sunlight blew some highlights.

http://www.lakefly.com/images/gbhcarp.jpg

PS - first post here. Great website!

Best,
Allan

[lilminijpc]

haha.... interesting article.
well we did see this post yesterday... the gull & a duck head (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=576722)... :)
so who knows what birds will eat now a days.

[hTr]

They will eat fish almost as big as they are!!!

[canonloader]

Until someone can show me a GBH eating something bigger than this (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=304721), I claim the record. :mrgreen:

[black_z]

Mitch, I can't believe ie swallowed that big ole thing! Wow!

[gjl711]

Dang... Gotta keep my Jack Russel away from these guys.

[canonloader]

Allen above asked he wonders how close he should be getting to these things. Well, I lived aboard my houseboat down in Kentucky for awhile, at a marina. and there was one that worked the docks there, all times of day or night. I use to sit out on my boat at night and watch him. There were a couple of old ladies that came down to fish at night too, with a 5 gallon bucket to hold the crappies they'd catch. The old blue would sneak up behind them and eat the fish right out of that bucket while they stood not 2 feet away. ;)

I later got to thinking they knew what he was doing and let him get away with a few before "catching" him and shooing him away. :)

[riyazi]

Hi riyazi
I believe it. Here's a link (http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/687172) to another post showing a GBH swallowing a fish that's apparently waaaaay too big for him. I snapped this a few weeks ago at a local marsh just before he flew off with it still stuck in his beak. Makes me wonder how close I should be getting to these birds. :) Sorry for the poor quality - it's nearly 100% cropped and low, brilliant sunlight blew some highlights.
PS - first post here. Great website!
Best,
Allan
Great shot Allan and excellent post at FM. Welcome to POTN

They will eat fish almost as big as they are!!!
Fish I can imagine however big they are - but a rabbit ????

Until someone can show me a GBH eating something bigger than this, I claim the record. :mrgreen:
Hmmmmm I dont know that bunny looked quite big !

Dang... Gotta keep my Jack Russel away from these guys.
And small children .... :)

I actually thought this was a hoax at first but seems like these guys are capable of tucking in to some big meals !

[Blue Deuce]

Until someone can show me a GBH eating something bigger than this (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=304721), I claim the record. :mrgreen:

From the archives. I can't contest my "catch" is bigger because of the poor angle. I will say catfish are pretty heavy with their fat belly's and might beat you in over all weight.

Let me keep digging. I know I got one bigger then this somewhere amongst 3 TB of files.

Edit: Dug up another contender to Mitch's crown :)

[scnapper]

I photographed this bird after it caught a impala.

lol

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/headsie/SG/Birddeer800.jpg

[gjl711]

I photographed this bird after it caught a impala.

lol

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/headsie/SG/Birddeer800.jpg
Now thats one mean a$$ bird.. :):)

[canonloader]

Ride-em cowboy. :)

[Flo]

I photographed this bird after it caught a impala.

lol

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/headsie/SG/Birddeer800.jpg
LMAO!!!:p

Reminds me when we were in the backroads here, and I was told there were bear around.we were straining our eyes to see anything that resembled bear . We did see one deer.and I mentioned that it would be great to see a bear snort out of the bush right behind that deer.....
hubby said it would be better of the deer came snorting out of the bush with a bear in its mouth:rolleyes:

[gjl711]

Wait a minute... I looked at the pic again. It's just a bird hat.

[CyberDyneSystems]

I photographed this bird after it caught a impala.

lol

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/headsie/SG/Birddeer800.jpg

And I could not believe it could eat the whole Impala,... but it DID! :shock:

[spooch]

is that a Texas cowboy bird or what??? It does look like a hat. lol

[aeast]

lol that is a great picture. Well done