The trail cameras get a lot of "non-target" captures, mostly birds. At this time of year it is mainly robins, blackbirds and moorhens but earlier in the year there were plenty of ducks, geese and swans. They rarely do anything interesting so I don't save the videos but every now and then something interesting turns up. Herons do appear on the camera occasionally, but usually much too close and out of focus. This time two cameras were watching to see a heron catch a water shrew.
Notice a second shrew running along the bank and then making a quick exit when it sees the heron.
There was a second video a few days later which I am surprised to find I haven't posted before. Somehow the heron knew there was a water shrew behind the tree and caught it. It still had to bring the shrew down to the water to dunk it and make it easier to swallow.
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