Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias - dipping a freshly-skewered catfish in the pond. I warched this behavior repeated several times, both at the spot where the fish was caught and when the bird moved across the bar to a spot farther from the road. Sometimes merely dipping it, sometimes dropping it and picking it up again, occasionally trying to swallow the fish. This went on for a quarter of an hour before the heron managed to cram this large meal down its throat. I have spent that much time watching herons several times and never even saw one catch anything before, at least nothing big enough for me to see what it was.