On the Dusk Walk the other day, the party bumped into one of our Foxes (admittedly, not our favourite animal at the moment after consuming our Kingfisher brood...) and they came back to show me a picture of the prey it was carting off.
Initially they thought that she was only carrying a female Mallard but then you look a little harder and realise that she also has a huge Water Vole too in her maw!
We reckon that she had caught them earlier and stashed them before heading back later in the day to collect them without the attention of corvids and herons!
Like them or loath them, you cannot deny that they are canny creatures!
Big mouth.... (Elaine Crew)..... and not you Elaine!
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Howard Vaughan, Information Officer
Those should keep her and her family going for a while! Fantastic shot.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.