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Image Taken on 02 Aug 2010 at 05:57    Image of day on 14 Sep 2010

Various stony places are littered with broken snail shells. Here is the culprit - a Song Thrush. We think this is a youngish one - it has certainly taken the snail to where there is no convenient stone.


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Image Taken on 15 Nov 2011 at 00:46    Image of day on 25 Dec 2011

Another day on we see a landing from straight ahead, and maybe discover one of the attractions of this tree-stump - one claw has trapped one of the Leopard slugs - a nice easy meal for the owl? The next image was 4 hours later so we will never know!


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Image Taken on 19 Dec 2009 at 15:11    Image of day on 25 Jan 2010

Long after installing and removing a camera at a known thrush anvil (which got some nice images) two existing sites each took some images of a thrush with a snail. At this site we found a few snail shells round the stone.


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Image Taken on 22 Dec 2009 at 15:52    Image of day on 25 Jan 2010

This site doesn't seem to have a suitable 'anvil' anywhere near.


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Image Taken on 24 Jun 2009 at 07:27    Image of day on 01 Aug 2009

Thrush bashing a snail on the stone to get at breakfast. He ate at least two like this in 5 minutes.


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Image Taken on 20 Jun 2009 at 09:33    Image of day on 19 Jul 2009

Clearing up the site a bit and getting his stone back level with the surface has brought back the thrush. Interesting what little details are important.


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Image Taken on 03 Jun 2009 at 13:30    Image of day on 04 Jul 2009

We found a stone surrounded to broken snail shells - the first 'thrushes anvil' we have ever found. Installing a camera and beam-break at it with care not to disturb the anvil site was quickly rewarded with some images of the thrush with snails. First a thrush with snail approaching the stone which is at the left edge a quarter of the way up.


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Image Taken on 03 Jun 2009 at 16:07    Image of day on 04 Jul 2009

Several hours later a closer image (with presumably a fresh snail).


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