His photos revealed a viral moment in the making: The long snake caught in the bird's mouth while it coiled around the bird's long, dagger-like beak. "Great blue herons will eat anything," he said.

His photos revealed a viral moment in the making: The long snake caught in the bird's mouth while it coiled around the bird's long, dagger-like beak. "Great blue herons will eat anything," he said.

His photos revealed a viral moment in the making: The long snake caught in the bird's mouth while it coiled around the bird's long, dagger-like beak. "Great blue herons will eat anything," he said.

The great blue heron will also occasionally hunt and eat snakes. In order to catch a water snake, a heron will stand very still and let the snake slither into range. Once the snake is in range ...

"It was quite dramatic watching this snake slowly swallow this fish," photographer ... on camera while trying to get a photo of a green heron on a pier in Landa Park in New Braunfels, Texas.

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas – A hobbyist photographer recently snapped a pretty awesome picture of nature at work — a big snake eating an equally ... a photo of a Green Heron he’d been watching.

“Herons eating rats is probably far more common than ... The Reddit user compared the blue heron's behavior to that of a snake, which are known to devour rodents whole.