Second Chance
A Yellow-crowned Night Heron surprisingly recaptures a blue crab that had escaped back into Horsepen Bayou after giving up its left pincer. Since blue crabs can regrow their pincers, this was a reasonable sacrifice, but wasted when it tried to hide in place rather than scurry away once it returned to the relative safety of the water. The bird, on the other hand, did not learn from its near loss, and makes the same tenuous claim on the right pincer, which gives way forthwith (see previous post).
Second Chance
A Yellow-crowned Night Heron surprisingly recaptures a blue crab that had escaped back into Horsepen Bayou after giving up its left pincer. Since blue crabs can regrow their pincers, this was a reasonable sacrifice, but wasted when it tried to hide in place rather than scurry away once it returned to the relative safety of the water. The bird, on the other hand, did not learn from its near loss, and makes the same tenuous claim on the right pincer, which gives way forthwith (see previous post).