This great blue heron at Point Reyes National Seashore sat motionless against the tall, green stalks, facing at a right angle from us, seeming to look into the expanse of Abbot Lagoon. Then it turned and walked just into the stalks, motionless again for at least a couple of minutes. Then, in an eye blink, it struck at something in the dark beyond it, and jerking back, revealed to us the prey in its beak.
Struggling mightily, the snake fought against its inevitable fate, coiling and uncoiling, wrapping and unwrapping itself around the beak of the heron. At some point, the large bird managed to tilt up its beak and swallow the head of the snake. Soon the rest of the slithery reptile followed.
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