After returning home, Stinson meticulously examined the pictures he had taken during his trip to the wildlife refuge. It was then that he realized the formidable adversary of the great blue heron was, in fact, a snake!
The pictures he took showed something really interesting: a long snake was caught in the heron's mouth, and it was wrapping around the bird's sharp beak. George Stinson commented, "Great blue herons will eat anything. So this one grabbed a snake that was just a little bit too hot to handle."