Great photography. Just great.

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thank you 😀

@spaceace1006

15 күн бұрын

Indeed!! Just served to make it more disturbing! Seeing the gopher struggling and grimacing!! Truly Disturbing! I need to be slapped!

"How could birds have possibly anything to do with dinosaurs? They are so small and cute and fragile..." Actual birds: cold, unblinking monster that snaps your neck, waits for you to suffocate, then swallows you whole.

@jimnorthland2903

Ай бұрын

Just what I was thinking! Dinosaur eats mammal. Next, mammal eats dinosaur.

@mikespangler98

Ай бұрын

This has been going on a long time 😊 I went and looked how long. Morganucodon is usually considered the first mammal but its oldest fossils, only represented by isolated teeth, date from around 205 million years ago. Based on the age of the specimens that we do have, that first dinosaur may well have lived in the early Triassic Period. The earliest dinosaurs for which we do have well-documented fossils are found in Late Triassic Ischigualasto Formation in northern Argentina. Skeletons discovered in these rock layers include the meat-eating dinosaurs Herrerasaurus and Eoraptor, as well as the plant-eating dinosaur Pisanosaurus. Some rock layers from this formation are composed of ancient volcanic ash, which has yielded a radioisotopic age of 228 million years ago. So it looks 205 million years of mammal-dinosaur warfare.

@Erissa

Ай бұрын

I mean better than Pelican death I guess. I've seen instances where those just swallow squirrels and whatever else can fit in its mouth whole while they are still very much alive. That would be like getting swallowed by a Titan in Attack on Titan.

@joannasaid1167

26 күн бұрын

They don’t

@michaelcorcoran8768

14 күн бұрын

Yeah once I started getting into birds ... And really it's just been the last few months where I've kind of gotten the bug, they are just Savage. Siblings killing siblings, parents killing siblings, Intruders and cuckoo brood parasites and so. And just their hunting prowess, even when things are relatively normal is insane. The way a kestrel and a barn owl can just go out and grab a rodent in 10 seconds and come back is so impressive.

That's a long agonizing death

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Yeah it was. I felt sorry for that gopher but I also felt happy for the bird. This particular bird, unlike most night herons, goes after prey that provides massive calories but big prey is hard to dispatch quickly. It seems to be this heron’s expertise.

@Shehzada-e-tharki

Ай бұрын

Welcome to the reality of nature. Must see how young lions kill their old father lions. Truly painful

@strongdelusion9442

Ай бұрын

Very similar to what we humans go through here on the flat earth realm!

@AngelMartineZz89

Ай бұрын

it is still sad tho 😔 nature is metal

@desmondshannon5360

22 күн бұрын

Well as said it cant kill as fast as its larger relatives. However agonizing it is thats how it is.

I've posted a similar comment about your work on a previous video, but this is spectacular photography! Brilliant!

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thanks. Honestly I think the best secret for photography is finding a subject that lets you get close and lets you move around for the best angle. This bird lets me be its paparazzi.

There was a ancient heron during the reign of the early Egyptians that was higher than a human. Imagine that bird impaling you.

@markusb.ausu.3878

Ай бұрын

It's called the Bennu heron with a height of 2 m / 6.6 ft. Would be interesting to watch. Not to be watched... 😅

@wieslawszypniewski6954

Ай бұрын

And the storks were so big that kidnapped human childrens

@moons4768

Ай бұрын

What kind of ransom did the heron demand

@samuraibeluga3749

Ай бұрын

they didint hunt humans....if anything they venerated them

@wr5488

29 күн бұрын

There’s storks in Brazil taller than people! Biggest flying bird I believe

Gopher had a few chances to escape but was too stunned to move. Bird was stalking like a leopard and ate like a snake.

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Yeah it surprised me when it put it down but it seemed the gopher hadn’t made a good plan to escape.

@leyrua

Ай бұрын

​@@jimzenor9148 I mean by then he was probably too exhausted to make a break for it.

👍Amazing footage! Seen a bit of this in the wild but never knew how they subdue gophers.

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thanks. I think this heron’s level of big game hunting is unusual for his species. I saw this particular heron hunting gophers a couple years ago. Also I saw one with all its toes trying to catch gophers but it wasn’t until this week did I actually document one catching one.

Literally watching a theropod dinosaur hunting.

gopher: ok you got me. just do it quick. heron: i promise i will do it as speedily as i can. 10min later gopher: surely you can't be serious? heron: i am and don't call me shirly.

Really cool video...a bird that moves like a cat!

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Yes they do. I love how they stalk gophers. I have a couple videos where they stalk fish too. They use similar tactics for different prey but they smart and adaptable if they need to be.

Grew up in NW Arkansas loved watching these guys fish by forming shade with their wings

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

These guys are clever. I watched one carry a beef rib into the water to use as bait.

I have watched the Great Blue Herons hunting for, and catching, voles in fields here in Maine. Fascinating! (Glad I'm not a vole!)

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Here in California they primarily hunt Botta’s Pocket Gophers. The vast majority of my videos are Great Blue Herons hunting gophers. They are really good at it.

So mesmerizing and intriguing. Thank you!

Poor little Gopher!! That Bird is truly, a Prehistoric Monster!!! Highly intelligent, resourceful and crafty!

My town needs this bird😅😅😅

The way it can retract and stretch out it's neck like that creeps me out

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

It is amazing. I was just talking with my brother about that. They look so different with the long and short necks.

Wow, that is one stealthy, strong, and focused bird! Thanks for sharing this!

Well done Thank you for sharing

Good videography, hard work appreciated

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thanks. Honestly this bird was interesting enough for me to make following it easier.

As painful and suffering it is for the gopher, the heron is also struggling a lot in this hunt. The need to keep the prey in a choke hold, maintain that choke strength with its beak, and constantly keep the beak firmly on the neck is a lot of commitment and energy. That is energy that the heron can not waste, so when it drops the gopher, it only does so to maintain a quick break to regain some energy and redo the process all over again. If this were a more inexperience or younger heron, I can imagine the gopher slipping away by catching enough air to make a quick sprint. Unlucky for the gopher, this heron was experience enough to not allow the gopher to gain that breath of air when it drop it.

Such a pretty bird is capable of such scary things

ЕГО ОХОТА --ЗАВОРАЖИВАЕТ!!...КАКАЯ ВЫДЕРЖКА...!НАМ УЧИТЬСЯ И УЧИТЬСЯ!!!ЖЕНЯ ГРОЗНЕНСКИЙ!!

Imagine that thing 15ft tall, 1000lbs and it can run 60 miles an hr. No wonder why humans didn't have a chance till recently.

@j.jarvis7460

Ай бұрын

Rubbish.

@AshbringerOnyxia

Ай бұрын

Imagine you would have a few Braincells more..

@HanginInSF

Ай бұрын

Imagine you have a 50 cal

@saltydriver3722

Ай бұрын

@HanginInSF I think fire was only thing that worked back then. Once we mastered fire, we took control. Great tool.

@Dell-ol6hb

Ай бұрын

There is no such animal, I’m not sure what you’re even talking about? Do you mean terror birds? Because the largest known species reached 10-11 ft tall max, and they were extinct before humans ever made it to the Americas

Really amazing close up footage! Nice work, sir!

I had known they ate Pocket Gophers I would have bought a flock of them for my old house.

Dang, he one-throated that gopher lol! Awesome video!

You know, it's hard to feel bad for the gopher given the multiple chances he had to flee.

@catpoke9557

Ай бұрын

Little dude was in shock

Herons are insanely good hunters........never get tired of watching em in action

Uma ave pescadora, aperfeiçoando sua técnica de pesca para ser uma caçadora furtiva no meio do mato, uma evolução impressionante

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Yes it is interesting how the very different preys have similar strategies to hunt. I have videos of this type of heron hunting fish and in both cases they are very stealthy and use similar techniques.

Nice Footage. Good written (silent) commentary as well. Much appreciated. We have Night Herons here in Hawaii. I live on Maui and on occasion have tried to approach them to observe. They are very wary. Gophers... that's amazing. I'm sure the Night Heron would be a welcomed guest on many people's yard. 😉

It's almost supernatural, the way the bird can weld its head in space, so that its body moves but its head suddenly appears to be painted in 3-D on a background. I note that this heron does not spear the gopher like the Great Blue does. What gorgeous video you've taken. That bird looks incredible.

Wow, these things are savages. Your channel has some amazing footage.

@jimzenor9148

7 күн бұрын

Thank you very much!

Aw.....wow... amazing video, thanks for sharing, I like birds and nature.

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thanks. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

Super common in Venezuela, we call them "chicuaco" because of the sound they produce at night. I've seen red tiger herons doing this exact same thing but while hunting blue tanagers.

Nicely done my young padawan

Amazing video great work 👏🏻

@jimzenor9148

24 күн бұрын

Thanks

Great footage! Well done!

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thanks

Gophers! It’s what’s for dinner.

Amazing video and bird!!!

@jimzenor9148

26 күн бұрын

Thanks Joanna. That really is an exceptional bird. It is so easy to video and it really is an exceptional hunter.

beautiful animal, beautiful shot, beautiful display.

Nice photography !. Imagine how difficult life would be, if we had dinosaurs sneaking about like that.

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thanks. Yeah I’m glad I’m not a gopher.

@uncletiggermclaren7592

Ай бұрын

@@jimzenor9148 We had a couple of dozen chickens, not little ones, Chochins, BIG fighting chickens. Mice and inexperienced rats would come to take the spilled grain. Never twice. Them girls could move faster than you could see, literally so fast that you had to work out what they had done after the fact. And they would RACE each other for the mouse, and just VICIOUSLY peck and peck and then fight to be the one who swallowed it whole. Half grown rats were too big for them to swallow whole, so they would crowd around it, and grab a part each and just pull it apart, "pop". And two of them even would try to take sparrows out, I didn't see them ever succeed because the sparrows knew the story too, and would be SUPER on edge once they were in the pen trying to steal grains.

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

@@uncletiggermclaren7592wow cool story. I’ll bet your chicken eggs are really good compared to what we can get here in the store. I have watched turkeys being really predatorial eating large snakes and rodents. Some birds are so fast.

@uncletiggermclaren7592

Ай бұрын

@@jimzenor9148 Oh, yeah the eggs were pretty good. We used to have a sign on the gate "Pick your own eggs !" :) Lots of people in the neighbourhood sold their eggs to a company that supplied vegetarian restaurants, and we did that too on occasion, but we ate so many of them, they would ring up and we would say "Yeah, we have a couple dozen" and they would flag driving down our long road, wasn't worth their time..

Well done! Excelent sharing!

Awesome video

Good hunting and damned good potography!

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thank you. That is very nice of you to say.

They really are adapted to short gass habitat. When I watch GB herons in PNW, the height allows an advantage, but the distance does not (and speed) always cooperate.

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Yeah I agree. Great Blue Herons are better at taller grass. I found the ones around here are reluctant to go into tall grass maybe because predators might hide there.

Have you noticed? They become more active at dusk, flying out to feeding sites, calling 'pan' as they pass overhead in the darkness. Next time you're out at dusk, listen for their distinctive call!

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Yeah I often run at 4:00 am and I’ve seen them hunting in the dark. They are called night herons for good reasons.

Tak to sú perfektné zábery lovu. Podarilo sa Ti nafilmovať úžasné video. Blahoželám...

Amazing video! Thank you!

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thanks and you’re welcome.

Impressive footage 🎉. So clear and CLOSE! Humans are pathetic compared to wild creatures.

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thanks

Amazing video 👏👍❤️

O almoço tá garantido. Tá no papo!

I would need a guinness to wash it down !! lol !

Man, I've never realized how much gophers kind of look like rats.

@jimzenor9148

13 күн бұрын

Yeah they do. I saw a night heron flying with what I thought was a rat a couple years ago but in hindsight I’m pretty sure it was a gopher.

Fantastic video thank you.

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it!

Outstanding video

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thanks

Great foto graphics

That was relaxing .

@tironecachoeira9122

Ай бұрын

Queria vê tu de frente de aves gigantes do mioceno seria relaxante.

True meaning to "death from above."

That gopher was not easy to kill. He couldn't break its neck though he tried hard. Eventually it looked as though he strangled it.

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Yeah that’s what I thought too.

A great warrior & hunter 😊

Amazing video!

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

This is metal af.

only 2 second is enough to swallow the whole prey

Pobre raton , sufrio antes de morir!😢

Какая прекрасная птица охотница, не знал что такая есть, поразительно скоььео Господь создал животных, и каких удивительных.

Wish I could get a couple of these birds to live in my yard and get rid of all the gophers.

Who all sees Dino's hunting skill!

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Yeah and the Dinos win the mammals this match.

Dude, that was some Morgan Freeman narration-worthy nature footage you got

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thanks

Oh man that's one slow death

amazing that it would continue to hunt after such a large meal. Does the night heron ever impale the gopher's head like the other herons or does it have to grab by the neck every time?

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

I think it generally does a grab but I took another video the next day (yesterday) where the bird did seem to impale a gigantic gopher. I’m not sure when I’ll have time to process it but I hope to post early next week. It quickly dropped it and then did the neck grab and shake for nearly a half hour.

Wild stuff there

Beautiful bird

The first thing the bird does is to get the gopher away from its hole. If he loses his grip, he'd at least have a shot at recapturing it.

😍Wow😍

…with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

I made a video once that I titled Silence of the Gophers.

When Ratatouille gets served itself

I LOVE HERONS ❤❤❤

That was painful

You guys know that old American saying? “It was grizzly” it stems from the fact that a grizzly bear, neither have the skills, nor the need to kill you swiftly. Unlike a mountain Lion who’ll go for throat, after mauling you, a grizzly bear goes straight for your fat, then your liver, that’s it. It’s big enough that it doesn’t need you to be dead, to eat your liver. This bird neither have the mean, or need to end it early.

De natuur is hard zeker voor zo een klein Fluffy diertje

Ini sangat baagus bagi pertanian padi di indonesia

great footage of nature.

This poor little mouse has no solution to escape.

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Yes being a gopher is hard. So many things want to eat them.

Balance of nature. Herons eat moles, coyotes eat rabbits, and we eat - - pretty much anything we want.

Nice video.

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

I think the bird wont need another meal for 3-4 days

Raptor

That was brutal.

Great

Beautiful bird!❤👍in an awful world 👎😟

Could you imagine their dinosaur ancestors doing the same thing birds and other reptiles of now days are the closest thing to them we are ever gonna see in our live time.. who knows maybe scientists will find a way to bring dinosaurs back

Awesome bird..

wow, i't expect it to use the beak to ipale its prey, and not to swallow it whole afte the kill.

Quá hay bạn ỏi👍👏🔔🔔

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thank you

Really nice video quality capturing this. Also useful subs. That tit tak shit subtitles gets old

@jimzenor9148

Ай бұрын

Thanks. I’ve tried narration but that seems to distract too much. Honestly the video quality surprised me when I saw it on the 4K monitor. I knew the light was good but it was really good.

Thats Nature

Great video. Oh, by the way Jim, I can hear you breathing

@jimzenor9148

25 күн бұрын

Yeah I think my adrenaline shot up on that one. I’ve sounded like Darth Vader a couple times when I had to run after a heron flying to the river.

@PaliAha808

25 күн бұрын

@@jimzenor9148

It sure shows it is persistent!!

Never knew black crowned night herons ate small rodents. I thought they were fish eaters. Learn something every day.

Deus é Maravilhoso, Perfeito nas sua Criações, tudo tem o equilíbrio natural criado por Deus, basta nós respeitar a natureza e viver em harmonia com ela