I watched this heron in Burnaby‘s Fraser Foreshore Park for about an hour today. It was patiently fishing, and got a little fish or two, when it suddenly stabbed at something on the shore and came up with a small mammal.

It swallowed the beast whole, and you can see the heron’s distended neck in the third photo.

Not sure what the prey is, a large vole?

Distended neck as the prey slides down…