Pamela Moresby
It’s a White Faced Grey Heron silently stalking lunch while wading in the mud of the Manukau Harbour.
Manuka is the name of a wading bird. This bird is a wading bird.
It listens and looks. The wading is an art. It can swim, walk or fly. It is like the water today.
It feeds from what is inside the mud, small insects, small crabs, maybe a bit of plant. Small tiny fish. Crustaceans?
As it hunts it’s eyes and ears also take on what is around it, possible predators?
It has it’s own patch and shares it with a partner that looks like it. Male and Female, have their own marked space.
One very smart and crafty bird.
Beautiful bird!
Thanks Ellie it is a lovely bird
What a beautiful heron!
Thanks Carol!
Great capture
Nice shot!
Thanks Georgi
Herons eat big fishes under the sea!
Well Nice Post @pam!
Thanks Hamza
I never saw what they ate but thanks for the informations.
I’m interested in your comment that this heron only takes small fish. My experience of herons in the UK is that they eat the biggest fish they can swallow – which is sometimes very big!
Thanks Indexer. I have yet to go and see them eat a big fish. However I have seen seagulls eat something huge all at once, would say that herons would do the same.
I once worked in a “ring” office block that was four storeys high and had a large pond in the open space at the centre. The boss had stocked the pond with his own coy carp, and was horrified when he turned up early one morning to see a heron flying round in circles trying to gain enough height to get out of the ring – having stuffed itself with all the coy carp it could swallow, which was nearly all of them!