And for starters I'll have the duckling: Merciless heron nabs duckling that ...
And for starters I’ll have the duckling: Merciless heron switches from hunting fish after baby bird paddles a little too close The little duckling was swimming with its mother and four siblings recently in a Southern California pond The doomed bird was unaware of a nearby predator, which was patiently waiting for an opportunity to strike Although fish is typically herons' favorite food, the opportunistic creature also eats baby birds, bugs and mice
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A baby duckling that paddled too close to a great blue heron in a Southern California pond became a fast feast for the hungry predator.
Photographer Randy Wei was in Huntington Park recently when he spotted a mother mallard swimming in a pond with her five babies trailing close behind, oblivious to danger lurking nearby.
‘Somehow, she got too close and too close and too comfortable in the vicinity of the great blue heron,’ Wei said.
‘The heron was standing still, waiting for fish, when suddenly I heard
