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Photos: Great blue heron catches, eats fish, declines to entertain motion to postpone

Photos: Great blue heron catches, eats fish, declines to entertain motion to postpone
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A Sunday afternoon visit to Miller-Showers Park on the north side of Bloomington, wedged between College Avenue and Walnut Street, confirmed that great blue herons are carnivores. Winds were out of the west at 16 mph with a temperature around 67 F degrees.

More photos below. They’re displayed in chronological order. Just after The B Square arrived at Miller-Showers, the heron flew from the southernmost pool down to the lower (northernmost) pool.


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