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This Great Bue Heron (Ardea herodias) was photographed exploiting a Double-crested Cormorant feeding event at Benbrook Lake, Texas on February 17, 2004; I've previously seeen GBHEs "hover" around such cormorant flocks, but was surprised to twice witness this individual calmly land on the water and sit among the throng for up to a minute (the birds were 100+yards out and it was way too deep for the heron to touch bottom):