I heard the bill snap shut long before I realized what he did.
This Great Blue Heron snatched the Dragonfly as it flew by.
Dragons Are Quick, So Are Herons
I heard the bill snap shut long before I realized what he did.
This Great Blue Heron snatched the Dragonfly as it flew by.
Didn’t know they were that fast!
They can attack, or grab, something so fast you don’t realize it after it’s happened. We see it often here during mating season. Great Egrets and Great Blue Herons nest in the same trees here, at times almost on top of each other. When a real disagreement breaks out the snapping, stabbing, and grasping each other is hard, and over in seconds. It’s not always pretty out there.
Some days the dragonflies are the predator, and some days they become the prey. Yikes!
As that great philosopher friend of the Big Lebowski, the Cowboy, says… “Sometimes you eat the Bar, sometimes the Bar eats you”.
🙂