Anyone see todays Sun (1 Viewer)

[WACCOE]

On page 23 of todays Sun there are pictures of a Grey Heron catching then drowning a Rabbit before swallowing the poor unfortunate creature.

Any body witness this themselves in the field.

 

[Pete Mella]

Saw the same pics in the Metro - the press love stories about animals eating other animals these days...

 

[liverpool_bob]

Saw the same pics in the Metro - the press love stories about animals eating other animals these days...

Perhaps it's something symbolic to do with banks, capitalism, credit, etc

 

[JWN Andrewes]

Any body witness this themselves in the field.

Not with a rabbit, but I've seen Grey Heron at Parkgate flying by with a hapless Water Rail flapping and wriggling between its unforgiving mandibles.

James

 

[edenwatcher]

Seen it several times. Young rabbits are a significant seasonal food source for our local herons.

Rob

 

[Pete Mella]

Perhaps it's something symbolic to do with banks, capitalism, credit, etc

The hungry heron of corporate finance looms and devours the defenceless bunny of the hard-working British middle-income wage-earner. I like it, but don't think the Sun's that clever!

 

[steveo]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1748631.ece Here it is.

 

[Sue Wright]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1748631.ece Here it is.

Thanks steveo, though WHY did I just have to go and look?! :eek!: I suppose that's a really good meal for them though and makes you wonder how many disappear during breeding.

Nature at it's best (yet cruellest) again.

Sue.

 

[JamesA]

I've had those pictures somwhere on my box for about a year now, and they weren't new when I found them. Must be a slow news day!

 

[Morph]

Did witness a "Murder" (apt name) of Crows killing and eating a young rabbit once. Really distressing.

 

[Fast_falkon]

that picture is 2 years old already, as you can see here:
http://www.birdpix.nl/album_page.php?pic_id=62646
http://www.birdpix.nl/album_page.php?pic_id=62942
http://www.birdpix.nl/album_page.php?pic_id=63293
http://www.birdpix.nl/album_page.php?pic_id=63294

 

[Himalaya]

Just goes to show how clever some birds are - an amazing insight into the mind of a heron - it knows a fish out of water will die, and it knows a drowned rabbit is a dead one.

Other birds which drown - the notorious Greater Black Backed Gull and I have heard of Sparrowhawks dunking their prey in water to kill them, if near a water table.

How would a crow kill a young rabbit? Must have been gruesome yet interesting to watch. Do they only use their beaks or do their talons help?

 

[Morph]

Just goes to show how clever some birds are - an amazing insight into the mind of a heron - it knows a fish out of water will die, and it knows a drowned rabbit is a dead one.

Other birds which drown - the notorious Greater Black Backed Gull and I have heard of Sparrowhawks dunking their prey in water to kill them, if near a water table.

How would a crow kill a young rabbit? Must have been gruesome yet interesting to watch. Do they only use their beaks or do their talons help?

It was about 5 of them all round it just pecking, by the time I got my binos out the van its eyes or at least the one I could see had gone but was still alive and screaming, it took a long time for it to die. but the crows didn't eat it all just a few bits. It was across a river so I couldn't get over to see exactly what had been left.