{"id":170391,"date":"2025-12-09T06:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=170391"},"modified":"2025-12-09T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:00:11","slug":"great-blue-heron-catching-two-fish-in-one-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/09\/great-blue-heron-catching-two-fish-in-one-try\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron Catching Two Fish In One Try"},"content":{"rendered":"

One morning last week I documented a Great Blue Heron catching fish with ease.<\/p>\n

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All the fish were tiny and I never got any photos that were very good but the heron’s fishing prowess was impressive.<\/p>\n

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Every time he tried, which was often, he came up with a small piscivorous morsel.<\/p>\n

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Each one of the fish in these first three photos was a different fish and ‘he’ caught at least one other fish that I didn’t get photos of. It was a good thing that he was so successful since it would take a bunch of them to make a meal.<\/p>\n

But one time was different.<\/p>\n

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He was walking forward in search of more fish when an ugly old sign post came between me and the spot the heron was approaching. I just knew he’d make a stab at a fish while the sign was obstructing him and I was right.<\/p>\n

I made the instinctive decision to stop taking photos while the sign was between us, which was a mistake because…<\/p>\n

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at that moment he caught two<\/span> fish with one stab! This is the first shot I got when I decided to start taking photos again.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a slightly better look at both fish.\u00a0I know he only made one stab to catch both fish because I watched him do it.<\/p>\n

Catching two tiny slippery fish with one stab is a pretty neat trick. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen it and almost certainly the last.<\/p>\n

Now my curiosity is killing me to know if he was able to swallow both fish without dropping at least one of them back into the water. I’ll never know because at the time I didn’t realize he had two fish in his bill so, because of the ugly sign post between us, I stopped taking photos.<\/p>\n

Just another one of my many photographic regrets.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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How did he DO that? (six photos)<\/p>\n

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