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General Category => Your Photos => Wildlife Photography => Topic started by: Oldboy on June 20, 2012, 10:58:12 PM
I was talking to some people today about how a Gull had tried to catch a baby Coot when this happened before my eyes. ???
A picture from yesterday of two of the baby Coots.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7276/7410326712_974b551cb3_z.jpg?v=0) (http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7276/7410326712_1a15a9cc1e_h.jpg)
The baby Coots were in the nest under mother when one decided to go down to the water to get a drink. The Gull had been waiting for this chance.
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5327/7410326722_e3c9205625_z.jpg?v=0) (http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5327/7410326722_e78c24817d_k.jpg)
After washing the baby Coot in the lake....
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7277/7410326732_142793f1bc_z.jpg?v=0) (http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7277/7410326732_2d292d21a2_k.jpg)
...it turns it ready to swallow head first....
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5458/7410326738_050b04a4d4_z.jpg?v=0) (http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5458/7410326738_de00d4166c_h.jpg)
....and starts to swallow the baby Coot.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8021/7410326740_5288f72be5_z.jpg?v=0) (http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8021/7410326740_7e7f5f15f7_k.jpg)
Click each image for bigger size.
Don't think I need to see it full size Oldboy.Unfortunately that is nature.
Des
Very sad but yes that is nature
Coot's drown their own chicks if they pester the parents too much. I saw this on an Atenbouough series 'The Life of Birds'. I sat there and cried my eyes out as the mother repetedly ducked the chick until it drowned :'(