. Nature Study Birds : A Book for Beginners in Bird Study . when flying. The Blur Heron makes a beautiful picture, too. whenlit is standing in shallow water fishing.—the clear watermaking another bird of him, the reflection of course beingupside down. In his large, pointed beak, he has a weaponfor catching fish or frogs better than the best hook thatman can make. He stands perfectly motionless in the wateruntil hi> prey gets near enough: then his head darts down asthough his neck were a coiled spring and the unfortunatecreature is either killed by the fierce stab or else seized be-tween the
. Nature Study Birds : A Book for Beginners in Bird Study . when flying. The Blur Heron makes a beautiful picture, too. whenlit is standing in shallow water fishing.—the clear watermaking another bird of him, the reflection of course beingupside down. In his large, pointed beak, he has a weaponfor catching fish or frogs better than the best hook thatman can make. He stands perfectly motionless in the wateruntil hi> prey gets near enough: then his head darts down asthough his neck were a coiled spring and the unfortunatecreature is either killed by the fierce stab or else seized be-tween the open mandibles. In either case it is quickly swal- j<lowed head first. |A Herons also kill and eat meadow mice and moles, thegood they do in this respect more than balancing the harm jfthey do in killing fish. They do some damage when they / ]fish in trout ponds and I have seen from one to six attime standing in fishermens seins spearing fish that weretrapped; of course in this last ease they only took smallfish that were of no use to the
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