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I was out walking when I saw a wide variety of colourful but broken snail shells, which were probably evidence of a serial-killing thrush. A bird either dropped snails onto the hard surfaces from a height or, more likely in this case, held a snail in their beak and bashed it, before extracting the snail from the broken shell and eating it or feeding it to a nearby baby bird.

05 Snail massacre, probably by a thrush, Cheltenham 06-15

Link to a larger image on flickr.

Date: 2015-07-03 07:05 am (UTC)
st_aurafina: Rainbow DNA (Default)
From: [personal profile] st_aurafina
That is so cool! (I wish the birds here would kill snails!)

Date: 2015-07-10 08:49 am (UTC)
nanila: (kusanagi: amused)
From: [personal profile] nanila
*wild applause* Go, thrush, go! I heartily approve of this application of snails. *grumble trying to eat all my courgettes grumble grumble*

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