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At the Rushy Lake, WWT Slimbridge a Herring Gull has been daily picking off the young Black-Headed Gull chicks, it's amazing that there are any left but there are.
I have got use to the screeching of the adult gulls when the Herring Gull attacks the island where many of them are nesting but as usual I looked up today and saw it carrying off yet another chick, so levelled the camera when...
Down into the lake the chick went as the Gull dropped it from its beak.
The chick soon realised it needed to start swimming and take cover so it headed, rather bedraggled, for the side of the lake...
The Herring Gull wasn't going to give up and made another attack...
But dropped the chick ... again!...
The chick eventually made it to the side vegetation and out of sight.
I was however glad to see it alive and well (apart from some apparent wing damage) when I returned several hours later...
Looking at this last image, it is amazing that the Herring Gull thought he could take a chick this size and probably the reason he twice dropped it.
(Poorer images included to tell the story )
I have got use to the screeching of the adult gulls when the Herring Gull attacks the island where many of them are nesting but as usual I looked up today and saw it carrying off yet another chick, so levelled the camera when...
Down into the lake the chick went as the Gull dropped it from its beak.
The chick soon realised it needed to start swimming and take cover so it headed, rather bedraggled, for the side of the lake...
The Herring Gull wasn't going to give up and made another attack...
But dropped the chick ... again!...
The chick eventually made it to the side vegetation and out of sight.
I was however glad to see it alive and well (apart from some apparent wing damage) when I returned several hours later...
Looking at this last image, it is amazing that the Herring Gull thought he could take a chick this size and probably the reason he twice dropped it.
(Poorer images included to tell the story )