When I was a teenager, my grandpa (not the one I have photos of on my
website) had a lake cottage where we went fishing a lot. One evening we
caught a bunch of Bluegills (a common fish in the USA, poplar with
fishermen). We were too tired to clean them so we left them in the floating
cage that we had in the water next to the pier. In the morning I heard
grandpa outside yelling: "Goddamned bird, its eating our fish!"
There was a heron standing on the pier pulling the still-living bluegills
out of our floating cage and eating them one by one until grandpa chased it
off the pier!
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On 3/21/09 7:20 PM, "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> They could if enough provoked and you could get close enough to them. A
> Great Blue Heron could easily drive it's bill right through your thigh.
> I've seen them spear some sizable fish that way... clean through.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> GBH's - do herons cause Grievous Bodily Harm? :-)
>> Andrew Fildes
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>> On 22/03/2009, at 5:41 AM, Candace Lemarr wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> We do have GBHs that reside here year round, so I have seen them with
>>> the white crest.
>>> They are very much wild birds and are not fond of people or
>>> cameras. :-)
>>> I often see them flying (singly) overhead, far out of reach of my
>>> lens,
>>> or my abilities to photograph them well. And sometimes I find them on
>>> ponds, lakes, and the Colorado river. I have not seen more than one
>>> at a
>>> time here, except in the instance of "the photo that got away". Which
>>> adds to my wish that I had been able to take that photo.
>>>
>>>
>>
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