Great Blue Heron Eats Screaming Squirrel in One Bite! Birding in San Diego (Lakeside)

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The Great Blue Heron scouts around the area until he notices a squirrels. The heron in a sudden and calculated attack, grabs the squirrel. The poor squirrel tried tirelessly to escape the grip of the heron with no luck. The cycle of life is vicious but necessary.
Timeline:
0:00 Intro
0:26 Heron Stalking Squirrel
1:21 Don't Intervene
1:40 The Heron Strikes!
4:05 More Birds
4:30 Dragon & Damselflies
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Пікірлер: 143

@Anyagrows Ай бұрын

The poor squirrel didn’t even see it coming 🥲 the circle of life is vicious.

@ExplorationEverything Ай бұрын

Vicious but life is also pretty nice 👍🏼

@KevinTichenor Ай бұрын

I agree! Sometimes you don’t know whether it’s a solid or a liquid, right?

@snapslingpeavine1371 3 күн бұрын

@@ExplorationEverythingWe know that life is nice, and that predators play a vital role in the ecosystem. We also know not to hate the heron for following its instincts. But it doesn’t make the death any less gruesome.🤷

@ilovecutedogs.6045 Күн бұрын

And beautiful

@denizen9998 10 күн бұрын

To small animals, terror birds never became extinct.

@NK-qn6pq 5 күн бұрын

"Nature is so peaceful and beautiful" Nature:

@daveman9712 23 күн бұрын

It didn't look to me like the bird was drowning the rodent, maybe just lubricating the meal to make it easier to swallow? Good video, though!

@ExplorationEverything 19 күн бұрын

Thanks! I’d agree, it probably just needed it to stop moving enough to swallow. The neck swinging and water boarding probably partially subdued it nevertheless. Before it used the water to make for an easier swallow.

@onemynde8915 14 күн бұрын

@@ExplorationEverything Ground Squirrels breathe at 100-150 breaths per minute normally. This guy was probably hyperventilating at 3 breaths per second so a short dip is enough to take in water and while not fatal, definitely debilitating. Also to lube the meal for going down the gullet.

@ExplorationEverything 14 күн бұрын

@@onemynde8915 Sure, but I was there, and watched the squirrel go from screaming to silent and limp. The lil thing wasn’t moving, wasn’t screaming, and was passed out or dead before being ingested hence the comical commentary of a heron drowning a squirrel. Drowning a squirrel takes 1-2 min per multiple random sources, so it probably got drowned in this long process of wetting the fur. The main point is that the bird is smart enough to manipulate its food with water anyways regardless of what happened👍🏼 thanks for the insight!

@cynthiagonzalez658 4 күн бұрын

Sauce 😋

@redamber483 6 күн бұрын

when you're hungry , there is no such thing as ''cute''

@jamesjohnson7905 8 күн бұрын

Great blue heron is a massively underrated predator

@hotboxmatty8042 10 күн бұрын

The Popeyes Biscuit of the animal kingdom

@dennisk5818 12 күн бұрын

I just learned something! I had no idea that the Great Blue Heron would hunt small rodents and squirrels. I had, up to this time, thought fish, snakes and frogs were its game. Thank you. Oh, for those who thought "... Ahhhh, the poor squirrel...". This is life. It happens daily and each every second in each day.

@ExplorationEverything 11 күн бұрын

It was a learning experience for me too😅 they have been known to go after ducklings or other small birds during spring breeding. They’ll go after anything nutritional regardless of how “cute” if it’s easy pickings.

@nebson 7 күн бұрын

Naturalistic fallacy. More generally: no “is” can imply an “ought”.

@zee_terminator2850 Күн бұрын

@@nebsonso do you suggest that we should intervene in ecosystems because from our perspective its sad when a cute looking rodent gets eaten by a predator that specifically evolved to hunt such animals? Im sure removing predators from local ecosystems couldnt possibly have any ramifications….

@dmbeaster 14 күн бұрын

The water makes it easier to swallow - not to drown it. It is still alive when swallowed, though stunned by the beak grip. It is tossing it around to get it in best swallow position.

@darksider9534 10 күн бұрын

Heron: 'Yo, this chicken nugget dry af! Ooh! Tomato Ketchup!' 😂

@hcollins9941 14 күн бұрын

66 million years later & this scenario hasn’t changed a bit! Azhdarchids would be proud birds took over their lessons in hunting!

@donttuga9310 10 күн бұрын

Birds are the dinosaur's descendants, so watching them is a good indication of how dinos really acted.

@hcollins9941 10 күн бұрын

@donttuga9310 Correction; Birds are the only living Dinosaurs left. They aren’t actually the descendants. Secondly, some fossils indicate that the earliest bird ancestors are possibly from the middle - late Jurassic; while the definitive earliest birds are from the Early - Late Cretaceous. So birds were around during the time of the non-avian dinosaurs & have survived to modern day.

@donttuga9310 10 күн бұрын

@@hcollins9941 I only said descendant to be kind, as I know plenty to people who refuse to accept that birds are, in fact, dinosaurs(same people I mentioned also refuse evidence that we humans evolved from an ape being, despite the fact our DNA is 99% the same as a gorilla) I wasn't trying to discredit science, I was simply making it simple. If that makes sense.

@hcollins9941 10 күн бұрын

@donttuga9310 Gotcha! 👍 Wasn’t trying to sound rude so I apologize; I also completely agree with you.

@donttuga9310 10 күн бұрын

@@hcollins9941 Don't worry you weren't rude(at least I didn't think you were) and I understand you wanting to set the record straight with accuracy, I totally agree with you on that. After all, there's always time for scientific accuracy my friend.

@Soltex3 6 күн бұрын

“Like a tortilla chip in salsa” is so unserious 😭😭😭

@williamsanders2439 10 күн бұрын

So long, Simon! 😂

@SXLLYSTRXNG 2 күн бұрын

Adios Alvin!🫡😭🤣

@joealvarez8733 7 күн бұрын

"Where's Alvin and Theodore? No comment!!! Well then, gurglegurglegurgle!!!" 😂😂😂

@tadhghayden7601 5 күн бұрын

Very creamy of you...

@ultimatez1 13 күн бұрын

This hungry pterodactyl...😂😂 Great video.

@ExplorationEverything 8 күн бұрын

@@ultimatez1 thanks! Definitely felt like I was watching a miniaturized dinosaur documentary in the making

@bensantos3882 9 күн бұрын

This is basically how asdarcyds or the giant pterosaurs hunted. We used to always see them as fish eaters, but these things were the size of giraffes but could fly. They most likely just ate smaller dinosaurs or their babies. Can you imagine that living in a world not only plagued in the ocean but your not even safe from the skies in the Crutaceous?

@saltymisfit6566 12 күн бұрын

I knew that great blues had a varied diet I just didn't realize they were rodent eaters

@ExplorationEverything 11 күн бұрын

Apparently they’ve been known to eat baby ducks too… I used to think it was mostly fish n snakes.

@Dweller415 6 күн бұрын

“Like a tortilla chip in salsa” 😂😂😂

@user-vp1sc7tt4m 7 күн бұрын

Small mammals may be why the dinosaurs (raptors) survived.

@RenaMoonn 2 күн бұрын

True classic right here. Just a dinosaur eating a mammal

@orboakin8074 8 күн бұрын

Whistler is a lot more brutal than I remember in the Animals of Farthing Wood cartoon😂😂

@justinlapid2163 7 күн бұрын

Man, never thought I'd see an Animals of farthing wood reference. Whistler was an all around good character. Poor bird, his partner/wife nagged him to near death.

@orboakin8074 7 күн бұрын

@@justinlapid2163 thanks dude. Grew up watching it as a kid in Nigeria 😂 Still Love it

@justinlapid2163 6 күн бұрын

@@orboakin8074 haha me too ! although it's hard to find a good copy of the series nowadays. Peace to all! And have a nice day

@actionman9451 Күн бұрын

Looks like Alvin can’t talk his way out of this one lol 😂

@amazingdany 8 күн бұрын

I saw that bird twice and wow! Majestic!

@ExplorationEverything 8 күн бұрын

@@amazingdany GBH are great looking birds. they’re one of my favorites.

@SkiKoala 10 күн бұрын

Imagine being eaten alive

@Bexploserpro 2 күн бұрын

Must be pretty claustrophobic, being digested in a bird's stomach. And Dark

@tom20152 28 күн бұрын

The bule heron just tried to clean his food before eating.

@ExplorationEverything 26 күн бұрын

Gotta make sure ya food is clean 👍🏼😅 but the water has a lot of nasty “toxic” algae. Birds seem fine tho

@philaro5958 10 күн бұрын

We have Great Blue Herons in San Francisco, and seeing them hunt gophers and squirrels in Golden Gate Park is pretty common. The park's main Lake has been renamed Great Blue Heron Lake as they like to hang out on a small island, high in the trees. My favorite GBH sighting was at Fort Funston - once a coastal artillery battery and now a park. The army loved to put in Ice Plant to hold the sand in place and now large areas are overgrown with a thick cover of it. Gophers and ground squirrels live under it and you occasionally see a GBH standing in it, looking like it's standing in a pond looking into the water, but I'm pretty sure it's waiting patiently at the entrance to a tunnel.

@chrislj2890 Ай бұрын

Great camera work!

@ExplorationEverything Ай бұрын

Thanks a lot! I’ll definitely have to practice more for better stability

@Walter-wo5sz 8 күн бұрын

We have a lot of sandhill cranes in my area. It's easy to imagine them as dinosaurs.

@ExplorationEverything 8 күн бұрын

@@Walter-wo5sz that’s super cool for you! Those are amazing birds. I hope to see one soon

@glenwhite4443 9 күн бұрын

3:10 - Alvin?! ALVIN!!!

@ExplorationEverything 9 күн бұрын

😅😂

@trashrat8365 3 күн бұрын

the irony is that actual pteranodons are closer to modern lizards than birds, i’d compare herons to raptors- they were probably just as brainy too!

@cynthiagonzalez658 4 күн бұрын

Dang didn't know they ate mammals😮‼️

@ronaid-with-an-i 5 күн бұрын

Squirrels in nature have always seemed like a strange case to me

@dbsartcore 9 күн бұрын

Herons are the descendants of a bird group which called terror birds - the fearsome carnivores

@jarhead6153 16 күн бұрын

If this is Lindo Lake, I use to live right around the corner on Beechtree St in the early 2000’s….beautiful area, nice vid, thanks.

@ExplorationEverything 16 күн бұрын

Thanks! It sure is a nice part of San Diego county. The lake has been worked on and has ongoing renovations.

@ronbdallas 9 күн бұрын

Great photos and video.

@ExplorationEverything 9 күн бұрын

Thank you! Have a great day🫡

@alanalda9686 Ай бұрын

One day you're the predator, next day the prey. That's mother nature

@ExplorationEverything 28 күн бұрын

It’s quite the messy web but it has its beauty

@kurtisjohnson9530 2 күн бұрын

Cool video. That is surprisingly small for Great Blue Heron. At least compared to those around the Great Plains.

@kdubyah8787 Ай бұрын

Great commentary. Informative.

@ExplorationEverything Ай бұрын

Thanks, Much appreciated!

@andrealexandre2422 11 күн бұрын

Yep Alvin bites the dust

@ExplorationEverything 11 күн бұрын

The heron will be back for the rest of the squad

@marcusw86 3 күн бұрын

Dang! I i had no idea they did this!!

@FERNANDOGONZALEZ-pb6re Ай бұрын

Beautiful camera work and brilliant information on all species.Marlin Perkins Sr.would have been very proud of you young man. Keep up the good work and my you prosper on all your endeavors.

@ExplorationEverything 28 күн бұрын

Wow, thank you! That’s definitely a high bar to strive towards. I’ll keep on learning in the field and improving what I can share

@dagoodboy6424 5 күн бұрын

My crows ate squirrels somewhat regularly.

@TomiAdewoleAdetom 4 күн бұрын

"Alvin, Simon, Theo-------------"

@randomstuffwithnofluff7472 10 күн бұрын

Those people walking the dog coc...I mean squirrel blocked him😅

@ExplorationEverything 9 күн бұрын

😂I guess you could say that. It happens quite often

@JohnnyFive-rn3xk 11 күн бұрын

What is the risk to stomach and neck while eating something alive? I've been bitten by a squirrel and they can take a finger probably. Imagine being bitten and clawed by your meal from the inside out. I saw a Komodo dragon eating a goat whole and alive. You could hear it screaming inside the lizard. Any time frame on suffocation or stomach acids dissolving the prey?

@SirThoreth 6 күн бұрын

I had no idea we get herons hunting at Lindo Lake. That’s my local lake too, though I haven’t gone there too often.

@cvhinson1 17 күн бұрын

This is what a phoetus sounds like during a d-n-x

@MattWaller04 5 күн бұрын

Dinosaurs be like:

@Mr.SharkTooth-zc8rm 12 күн бұрын

Freakin' Maniraptoran theropods...

@Frosty294492 2 күн бұрын

Once you realize that all mammals feel pain in a similar way that we do this is hard to watch!

@oscar24x 26 күн бұрын

cool

@ExplorationEverything 26 күн бұрын

It was a pretty cool encounter indeed!

@michaelcorcoran8768 20 сағат бұрын

Sometimes you say squirrel and sometimes you say chipmunks.

@ExplorationEverything 19 сағат бұрын

@@michaelcorcoran8768 @ The time section

@ewthmatth 7 күн бұрын

"to relax their spines" what??

@ExplorationEverything 7 күн бұрын

It’s the language used by one of the articles from Cornell lab of ornithology on the life history of the gbh.

@the5prados 7 күн бұрын

So is it a chipmunk or ground squirrel

@ExplorationEverything 7 күн бұрын

@@the5prados if you watched the video you should know…

@deiselnoe1 Күн бұрын

Like a tortilla chip in salsa

@The_Practical_Daydreamer Ай бұрын

The way it waggels is like a cat before it strikes. What is the name ifnthe back round music used?

@ExplorationEverything Ай бұрын

Haha yeah they have some behavioral similarities when hunting. The music used in the video is from epidemic sounds, (donvayei- lofi del pueblo and hallan- whatever to like)

@The_Practical_Daydreamer Ай бұрын

@@ExplorationEverything Thank you.

@jeffmeyer4965 16 күн бұрын

Food web?

@ExplorationEverything 15 күн бұрын

Food webs are more dynamic incorporating all interactions between organisms rather than food chains which are more simple linear paths of energy transfer between trophic levels.

@jeffmeyer4965 15 күн бұрын

@@ExplorationEverything Someone always has to reinvent the wheel! Thanks

@alvinyao788 4 күн бұрын

Nooo Theodore!!!

@controversykidd 6 күн бұрын

Alvin… ALVIN!!!

@NeightrixPrime 9 сағат бұрын

What a bastard

@Scott767300 12 күн бұрын

Squirrels??? Man…had no idea

@ExplorationEverything 8 күн бұрын

@@Scott767300 and baby ducks sometimes if they’re easy pickings…😅 they’re smart but ruthless for a meal

@Scott767300 8 күн бұрын

@@ExplorationEverything really interesting. Thanks for postinb👍

@standrean 24 күн бұрын

Blackadder III would be proud.

@ExplorationEverything 24 күн бұрын

🫡

@user-ls7fc9bc4p 7 күн бұрын

True Predator

@dtvjho 23 күн бұрын

3:11 I hear Canadian geese off camera…

@ExplorationEverything 15 күн бұрын

They’re omnipresent and will make themselves known 😂

@casperknudsen7086 9 күн бұрын

I have one local heron coming to my pond, to eat my gold fish 🤣😂

@ExplorationEverything 9 күн бұрын

Oh no😅 they need to keep the local lakes stocked so the heron doesn’t steal more fish

@eddypuentes6155 Ай бұрын

Nature is scary 😰.

@ExplorationEverything Ай бұрын

It definitely has its scary moments but the complexity always fascinates me

@eddypuentes6155 Ай бұрын

@@ExplorationEverything it fascinates me too. I'm hooked on nature videos even though nature can sometimes be a bit scary. It's like you said the complexity of it all:-).

@starinvader5969 29 күн бұрын

Grow a per of balls

@tomkarau 12 күн бұрын

Great video I love great blue herons and I hate grey squirrels...

@ExplorationEverything 11 күн бұрын

Thanks! They can definitely be a nuisance when abundant

@TheCrimsonWolf 10 күн бұрын

Not at all a funny subject but your commentary was hilarious. Would enjoy a documentary with your voice in it.

@ExplorationEverything 9 күн бұрын

Thanks! I’ll try to make more soon. It definitely wasn’t a light subject to cover especially since it was another mammal. It wasn’t what I was expecting to see that day but I felt it was worth sharing with the right context.

@Hello92864 Ай бұрын

I saw squirrel attack robin chicks 😮

@ExplorationEverything Ай бұрын

Yeah, they can sometimes flip the roles and get “revenge”. The tropic levels can be fluid or flexible hence the web analogy. Our local Cooper’s hawk tried attacking a bluebird nest this season!

@ericschulze5641 12 күн бұрын

Robin's nest in my yard every year & the squirrels eat the babies every year