Date: 1/28/26 7:40 pm From: Jean Brocklebank <jeanbean...> Subject: Re: [MBBIRDS] Great Blue
Did it eventually drop it and ignore it?
On Jan 28, 2026, at 7:34 PM, 'Paul Miller' via mbbirds wrote:
> Interesting today to see a Great Blue Heron with a Rough-skinned or California Newt in its bill at the pond at East Glenwood Preserve. > It wouldn't > <1000006403.jpg> > > swallow it. It kept dipping it in the water as if to wash off the toxins... > It didn't want to release it, but it wouldn't eat it. > I assume that if it swallowed the newt, it would have perished. > Happy to be educated further. > Paul Miller
