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Great Blue Heron - The Superlative Embodiment of Simultaneous Antonymic Attributes: Patience and Arrogance. Watched two birds for about twenty minutes. Bird A, the first one I saw and the one closer to me, got tired of standing in one place at the shoreline for so long. As a result, it walked up onto the shallow mudflat in the water searching for quicker bites to eat. Almost instantaneously, it located one and stabbed it and kept it in its mouth. It then made its way back to the trees where NOCA was calling. However, on the way there Bird B stopped A and disdainfully chased him around for a tiny little fish, threatening A with a piece of garbage B found on the floor. Nevertheless, A got away and into the trees where it presumably enjoyed the snack. B, after witnessing this fruitful feeding strategy, began doing exactly what A had initiated. It delivered at least four fish in quick succession and each time, it followed the same routine: walk around, spot a fish, stab the fish, wait a few seconds for the fish to stop flopping, eat the fish, wash the beak, rinse and repeat. Although successful, B kept an angry look and snarky attitude toward the other A, not to mention A seemed to be having a bad hair day today. Always fun to watch these birds watching the fish.
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