This hungry Great Blue Heron waited around for a few minutes before plucking a pocket gopher from a meadow in in Golden Gate Park.
It’s the circle of life.
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This didn’t end well for the gopher.
The parent bird, the tallest one, just hunted and killed a pocket gopher to bring back to the nest high above Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park. The middle chick (fledgling now?) scooped up the undigested rodent to the chagrin of its siblings.
You can see the outline of the gopher slowly sliding down the neck of the aptly named Great Blue Heron.
Canon 600mm 4.0 IS with Canon 2x II extender.
This little pup has been bred to attack vermin, so that’s what must be on its mind a great deal of the time.
Eternal vigilance.