Local Twitterer Elliott Loh was hanging out in Golden Gate Park last month when he and some onlookers spotted a blue heron staking out a gopher hole, and making a meal out of one gopher. This is actually a fairly frequent occurrence in the park, which is home to five heron nests, as waterbird biologist Victoria Heyse tells Hoodline, and herons are pretty omnivorous with their prey.

"They like to stalk their prey, so they'll wander around and really go for anything," Heyse says, and that includes fish and frogs as well as rodents.

Gophers are at the larger end of the birds' swallow-able spectrum, though, as you can see from the photo below, and the 2014 video further below shot by a squealing father and daughter team from their car.

Look out for gopher-devouring herons also around Stow Lake, the Palace of Fine Arts, and Lake Merced.

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