Grebey guts

[Peter Sharpe]

Today, at Bainton Fisheries, I watched a grebe catch and swallow a pike that must have weighed around one and a half pounds. In fact the pike was probably longer than the grebe's body, so how it managed it I can't imagine. I once watched one at the Wissey Outfall swallow twelve twelve eels in succession, each one being around ten inches long. This is obviously just about physically impossible, yet I watched it with my own eyes. If a grebe can do that, just think by how much the "experts" are under estimating the capacity of a cormorant.

 

[ 15. May 2005, 09:45 PM: Message edited by: Peter Sharpe ]

[tommo666]

I have personally watched a cormorant devour at least 3 eels and the same amount of fish within a ten minute session in padstow harbour. believe me those guys are eating machines.

[Norfolkdan]

Seen them eat a whole roach that looked about 1lb. Once took my mates deadbait too (a herring.