Greg,
I have no idea what a full-grown Muskrat weighs, but I watched a Great Blue
Heron attack and kill one (got poor photos) this summer.
Allen Chartier
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Every day, the hummingbird eats its own weight in food.
You may wonder how it weighs the food. It doesn't.
It just eats another hummingbird.
---Steven Wright
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From: "Gregory Bennett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 3:57 PM
Subject: [Ohio-birds] FW from FL list: Great Blue Heron predation on
Pied-billed Grebe.
> Interesting note on behavior from the Florida list.
> Greg Bennett
> Akron OH
>
> Subject: Great Blue Heron predation on Pied-billed Grebe.
> From: Rex Rowan <rexrowan AT EARTHLINK.NET>
> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:53:00 -0500
> This morning at Sampson Lake (west of Starke, Bradford Co.) Bob Carroll,
> Becky
> Enneis, and I saw a Great Blue Heron carrying what appeared to be a
> football in
> its bill. Seeing two legs projecting from one end of the football, we
> realized
> that the heron was attempting to eat a Pied-billed Grebe, whose head and
> neck
> were already in the heron's gullet. However, perhaps because the grebe's
> weight
> prevented the heron from lifting it above the horizontal, or perhaps
> because it
> was just too big to swallow under any circumstances, the situation
> remained
> unresolved by the time we left. The heron spent about 45 minutes pacing
> around,
> occasionally appearing to put the grebe down and then pick it up again,
> but
> never got more than the head and neck past its gape. I was surprised when
> Mike
> Hoekstra reported a Great Blue eating a Least Bittern at Paynes Prairie in
> July
> 1988, but according to Sibley a Least Bittern weighs only 80 g compared to
> a
> Pied-billed Grebe's 450!
>
> Rex Rowan
> Gainesville
>
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