Heron catching crappie (then eating it)

All my other heron 'fishing video' just show the heron eating his catch. This time I got him on cam when he 'grabbed' the crappie. This crappie is not as big as the last one - but it still took him about 10 minutes to 'choke it down' - so I cut video down to 4 minutes

Blue Heron eating a crappie this time

Great Blue Heron came back on 1/27/2008 and made me mad. This time he/she got a crappie (previouw video show the bass being eaten). It took almost 30 minutes to get the crappie down (compared to less than 10 minutes for the bass). I cut video sections down to 6 minutes - but still loads slow:

Blue Heron eating a bass

Video from (1/23/2008) - I watched a blue heron eat a bass (see video) and while I was working on this video a dumbA water turkey got TWO MORE BASS (about same size as one Heron got). The water turkey gulps the bass - eats them so fast that I can't catch them on video

Northern Shoveler are back

Northern Shoveler (was several more but they are camera shy)