Riverside Cold Case

JonathanD

Ophiological Genius
Sep 3, 2004
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Here's one for you. Deliberately left out scale as that would make things too easy. Who is the predator and who was the victim?

Location...

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..and exit stage right:

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There was this fella too. Left flipping about after I disturbed the predator. I ate him, shame to let it go to waste.

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Nom nom....

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British Red

M.A.B (Mad About Bushcraft)
Dec 30, 2005
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Okay time for me to show my ignorance :)

Foxes crush eggs in the mouth so not fox

Rats eat in the nest - so not rat

Corvids pierce and drink so not corvid

I'm going for a mustelid - as evidenced by the canine puncture mark

The fish indicates not stoat or weasel...so mink or otter

...hmmm otter? the egg I have no real idea but I'll go for moorhen.

Red
 
Feb 15, 2011
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Nice one jonathonD........the predator was either an otter or a mink, I'm sure the clue is in the passage in the vegatation, the egg stumps me as both coot & moorhen have slightly speckled eggs & this looks plain white,( but the egg(s) are not necessarly those of a water bird )......I would say mink but the puncture holes on the egg shell appear too wide for a mink.......The way the fish has been scaled & fileted should give the game away but helas, I'm none the wiser.
 

British Red

M.A.B (Mad About Bushcraft)
Dec 30, 2005
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ooookayyy

Hmm too greeny white for coot and not speckled enough

I'm thinking water bird dues to the river proximity and trying for a ground nester as it was predated by otter.

It looks far too small for duck to me

I'm going to go a bit off piste and say, to me it looks like a partridge egg
 

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