Filling A Developing Hole!

Not totally related to the rubbish weather but mainly so, there's another hole developing on Birds2blog, so I thought it best to fill it in before it gets any bigger. 

By coincidence I have been sent two rather interesting and intriguing images recording two recent events, one of which was on Conder Pool, and one south in Gloucestershire.

Kingfisher Conder Pool. Howard Stockdale.

 

Taking this shot recently on Conder Pool, Howard sent it to me to do a little reading about the lunch in the Kingfishers bill which was identified as a Common Prawn Palaemonen serratus, a species of shrimp found in the Atlantic Ocean from Denmark to Mauritania, and in the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea.

P. serratus is one of several commercially important species of prawns in the UK. Fisheries are operated on a very local scale, and many of these Common Prawns are live exported to markets in Southern Europe. This one expired in the bill of a Kingfisher on Conder Pool in Lancashire....Thanks for the image Howard.

Crab Spider/Blue-tailed Damselfly. Nick Hughes.

So named because its long front legs are arranged in crab-like fashion, and it can run sideways. Nick said about the Crab Spider Misumena vatia....'This Blue-tailed Damselfly landing on top of a Crab Spider and not getting grabbed was my favourite nature shot of the year. I had just focused on the spider who was set to grab prey and the subject of the shot, when the damselfly landed, it escaped the clutches of the spider and lived to fly another day'....Chance in a million Nick, thanks for the image.

Thanks to Martin Jump for helping B2B out of the hole with his header image of a Ringed Plover ahead of two Dunlin coming in to land to join the high tide roost on Plover Scar. 

I'd Sooner Be Birding!