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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Bird Brain on April 11, 2013, 07:01:46 PM

Title: Great Blue Heron flys by
Post by: Bird Brain on April 11, 2013, 07:01:46 PM

Hi everyone.  Tonight at 6:27pm, a GBH flew past my livingroom window, heading SW.  

Lake Aquitaine:  SE corner of Glen Erin Dr./Aquitaine Ave., behind the Meadowvale Community Centre.  

Weather:  cloudy, -7c windchill, a mix of rain & freezing rain.   :shock:  Is it Summer yet?

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron flys by
Post by: Rotarran on April 12, 2013, 11:14:30 AM

I see one very often at Toogood Pond in Markham.  Yesterday I saw one successfully catching a fish and then killing it on the shore by stabbing it a couple of times.  It was one of the coolest things I had ever seen.

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron flys by
Post by: Tak on April 12, 2013, 06:51:15 PM

Ok, but one of the most gruesome things we've seen is a GBH who stakes out a  neighbour's birdfeeder. When a chipmunk comes to steal seed, it catches it, walks down to the shore and  holds it underwater till it drowns. Then it eats it. I realize that nature is as nature does, but it still makes me squeamish to think about.

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron flys by
Post by: thouc on April 12, 2013, 06:57:23 PM

That's pretty clever with multi-step thinking and everything  :twisted:  :idea:

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron flys by
Post by: Bird Brain on April 12, 2013, 09:37:24 PM

Tonight at 6:11pm, GBH flys by livingroom window, heading NE.

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron flys by
Post by: Bird Brain on April 13, 2013, 06:23:51 PM

Sat. April 13th, GBH flys by, heading NE, 6:15pm.