crab

And now for something completely different...I've posted birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, plus a few bugs...but this is the first crab I've posted! These small, tree-climbing crabs are very common and very numerous in mangrove swamps along our coasts...and during certain times of year...

Happy chappie ... is not so pleased ... ... as their number is going down ... ___________ Threatened ... Western Ghat Crab Indian Gecarcinucid Crabs Karnala Forest Singh Gad Maharashtra India 2 October 2014

One from Embo a while back - tricky beak work, with a tricky beak...

Crab on the coast of Grenada.

Last one in the "Feeding" series. Up at the Loch Fleet NNR, and lucky enough to see the curlew catching lunch, although given the size of the crab, probably more of a starter...

Tobermory (What's the story Balamory - for those of a certain age) - standing on a kind of pier, and loads of gulls about, and my friend noticed this. "Feeding" series no 5

This egret was feasting on some fresh crab at the reserve. The only thing missing was the drawn butter as far as I was concerned! LOL!

This Bonaparte's Gull was feasting on crab for his dinner.

A picture I took in Wicklow, Ireland of a Great black-backed gull. Having caught a crab, it would bring it ashore to devour it before returning to the river for more! Anyone else seen this kind of behaviour?

caught these two small crabs fighting while I was trying to catch a feed, interesting to watch the rest of the group came rushing over to Help!

Red Fiddler Crab (adult and juvenile) and a mudskipper - from the mud flats of the Sunderban delta

Red-jointed Fiddler Crab (Uca minax: Ocypodoidea) These crustaceans gain a maximum carapace (shell) width of 3.8 cm (1.5 in). Only the males have a single enlarged claw. Either the left or right can be enlarged, apparently it is a 50/50 chance on which one becomes enlarged. Photographed in...

Close cropped to show an unlucky Fiddler crab. Fiddler crabs form colonies of thousands and a food supply for the wading marsh birds. The Ibis's beak is perfectly adapted for this sort of feeding.

This Ibis was hunting Fiddler crabs in the saltmarsh. The Fiddler crabs burrow down in the sand and mud and the Ibis has a beak perfectly designed to remove Fiddlers from their burrows.