Amazing footage! That first fish looks like a huge (do you know what kind?) one the bird caught! The fish was struggling, but the hungry Heron managed to fully consume (alive?!) it all okay? It looked like the unlucky thing was desperately kicking sliding down that long throat! I wonder, does the large fish stand any chance of escaping if eaten in that condition? Maybe it can turn around inside the elastic throat/stomach and has a chance of survival here.
Those are pretty big trout for what is a very small stream in the winter. Yes, the sliding down the throat while still kicking is crazy. Check out the Heron and the Vole video and you see the same action with a heron consuming a vole.
Amazing footage! That looks like a pretty big fish (a fully grown/adult Trout?) the bird caught! The fish was struggling, but the hungry Heron managed to fully consume (alive?!) it all okay? It looked like the unlucky thing was desperately kicking sliding down that long throat! I wonder, does the large fish stand any chance of escaping if eaten in that condition? Maybe it can turn around inside the elastic throat/stomach and has a chance of survival here.
I haven't seen a trout (that's what we have in South Boulder Creek) get away! Or the vole in the earlier video. Once those herons get hold of something it's down the hatch.
