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Re: [OM] The ones that get away.

Subject: Re: [OM] The ones that get away.
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:20:16 -0400
They could if enough provoked and you could get close enough to them.  A 
Great Blue Heron could easily drive it's bill right through your thigh. 
  I've seen them spear some sizable fish that way... clean through.

Chuck Norcutt


Andrew Fildes wrote:
> GBH's - do herons cause Grievous Bodily Harm? :-)
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> On 22/03/2009, at 5:41 AM, Candace Lemarr wrote:
> 
>>
>> We do have GBHs that reside here year round, so I have seen them with
>> the white crest.
>> They are very much wild birds and are not fond of people or  
>> cameras. :-)
>> I often see them flying (singly) overhead, far out of reach of my  
>> lens,
>> or my abilities to photograph them well. And sometimes I find them on
>> ponds, lakes, and the Colorado river. I have not seen more than one  
>> at a
>> time here, except in the instance of "the photo that got away". Which
>> adds to my wish that I had been able to take that photo.
>>
>>
> 
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