Taken at the Oysterbed site.
I was watching the gulls and tern flying overhead when I head a gull calling out very loudly behind me. Imagine my surprise when I saw a Mallard Duck flying, flat out, with a Black-headed Gull chasing it. I just had time to take these shots before they disappeared.
The Duck has picked up a crab from the beach and refuses to give it up. The gull's kleptomaniac instincts have kicked in and is trying to get the crab.



The normal food of a Mallard is small aquatic invertebrates, seeds, roots, shoots and grain. A crab hardly falls into any of these categories.
Comments welcome as always
I was watching the gulls and tern flying overhead when I head a gull calling out very loudly behind me. Imagine my surprise when I saw a Mallard Duck flying, flat out, with a Black-headed Gull chasing it. I just had time to take these shots before they disappeared.
The Duck has picked up a crab from the beach and refuses to give it up. The gull's kleptomaniac instincts have kicked in and is trying to get the crab.



The normal food of a Mallard is small aquatic invertebrates, seeds, roots, shoots and grain. A crab hardly falls into any of these categories.
Comments welcome as always
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