Breakfast For One
This Greater Blue-eared Starling had the good fortune to be presented with this dead Baboon Spider (Harpactira gigas) as a meal. Minutes earlier, we watched an African Pipit bird (Anthus cinnamomeus) do battle with the spider that resulted in a huge scuffle on the ground (Baboon Spiders live in burrows), feathers and dust flying, and a very agitated bird.
I'm not sure if the spider managed to bite the Pipit bird but it was left with some very ruffled chest feathers and a rather stunned demeanour before it abandoned the meal and eventually flew off. It took the spider a few minutes to die before it was eventually noticed by the Starling.
Breakfast For One
This Greater Blue-eared Starling had the good fortune to be presented with this dead Baboon Spider (Harpactira gigas) as a meal. Minutes earlier, we watched an African Pipit bird (Anthus cinnamomeus) do battle with the spider that resulted in a huge scuffle on the ground (Baboon Spiders live in burrows), feathers and dust flying, and a very agitated bird.
I'm not sure if the spider managed to bite the Pipit bird but it was left with some very ruffled chest feathers and a rather stunned demeanour before it abandoned the meal and eventually flew off. It took the spider a few minutes to die before it was eventually noticed by the Starling.