Watch as a blue heron struggles with a lamprey at Hoy Creek in Coquitlam.
Check out this blue heron who frequents Hoy Creek for his evening meals. This video was taken by by the Hoy Creek salmon hatchery by a Hoy-Scott Watershed Society member.
The blue heron catches a lamprey, and through patience, perseverance and careful beak skills he finally consumes his take.
The snake-like lamprey put up a good fight!
"Lampreys are any jawless fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, placed in the superclass Cyclostomata. The adult lamprey may be characterized by a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth. " - Wikipedia