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Bigmack

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4. I witnessed a bald eagle kill a great blue heron....

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Fri Apr 29, 2016, 10:36 PM

Apr 2016

Eagles will take damn near anything if it's not aware of the eagle.
The eagle blind-sided the heron in about 6" of water. BIG puff of feathers. I think the heron was dead from the initial hit, and then the eagle landed on him to make sure.

Ate him, too.

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