On Jul 14, 2:50*am, DaveS wrote:

Thing is the Blue Heron is such an iconic American thing of beauty,
AND it's quite easy to minimise the blood reality of the icon
fastidiously preying on tiny fishys and maybe a froggy or two. And
they look great against the green of alfalfa and in the wheat
stubble. *But wait a minute, that beautiful damn thing just gobbled a
fat, freaking GOPHER, swallowed it like a snake !!!!!!

A few years ago I took a video of a Great Blue Heron killing and
swallowing a large gopher. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUIhNmC-diI