While birding Magee Marsh last Friday, I observed a Great Blue Heron
predating on a female Red-winged Blackbird.  The heron had the blackbird in its bill
and kept pounding it on the ground till it subdued its victim and flew off with
it.  Several blackbirds mobbed the heron while this was going on.  Photos on
my blog at:
http://katdocsworld.blogspot.com/2008/05/unusual-gbhe-behavior.html

Has anyone observed GBHE taking birds before, especially ones this large?

Kathi Hutton
Felicity (SW OH)

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