Herons

whodafunk

I passed a road tonight and noticed 2 Herons just in off the road moving around a bunch of trees as if they were hunting. This was at 9:30pm - street lights were lighting up the area. Is this normal behaviour?

OpenYourEyes

At ground level or high up in the trees?

If they were at ground level - Herons eat pretty much anything below a certain size, and the lights would provide possible feeding opportunities, so not too out of the ordinary!

whodafunk

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

At ground level or high up in the trees?

If they were at ground level - Herons eat pretty much anything below a certain size, and the lights would provide possible feeding opportunities, so not too out of the ordinary!

Thanks for the response - at ground level. I guess like you say they were using the light to assist feeding. I've just never seen them around so late!

OpenYourEyes

I'd say its one of those things that happens in a lot of well-lit towns and cities, but isn't necessarily seen too often. Certainly, there'd be the chance to catch invertebrates, frogs, small rodents etc. in those kinds of areas at night - and a meal is a meal, whenever it comes!