Raven Snatches Up Baby Rabbit And Flies Off With Him Clamped In His Beak (PICTURES)
Bye Bye Bunny! Raven Swoops Off With A Rabbit (PICTURES)
Sara C Nelson— SWNS
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A tiny bunny met with a grisly end after being snatched up and carried off by a hungry Raven.
The rabbit's doomed last moments were captured by amateur photographer Bob Sharples, who was driving near Marazion Marsh, Cornwall, when he noticed the abduction.
The retired Royal Naval petty officer stopped his car after noticing a "black shape carrying something rather large in its beak".
He said: "I turned the car around, grabbed my camera and zoomed in. When I realised what it was I thought it was pretty amazing.
"I've had a couple of shots with birds with prey, but nothing like this."
Experts are in a flap about the sighting, describing it as a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.
Gary Lewis, from the Cornwall Wildlife Trust, said: "I have never seen a raven carrying a piece of prey that size - and I have been looking at nature for 50 years.
"It is certainly unusual, and amazing to capture it on camera.
"Ravens are opportunist feeders and my guess is that this rabbit had either died of natural causes or was sick and therefore easy prey, because it's unlikely a raven could have caught it if it was a healthy rabbit.
"But all things are possible, there's a possibility it could have caught it unaware."
Bob, from Helston, Cornwall, added: "It was Easter Friday that I took the picture and I remember thinking, 'it's not a very good Easter for this bunny'."
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