Sad Footage

[malagabob]

Springwatch. Footage of greater Spotted Woodpecker turning cannibal. Plucking chicks from a nest to feed to its own chicks. Swallow chicks dying in the nest due to cold n wet weather.

[dannyk13]

Nature can sometimes be cruel.

[ladybirder]

Ditto Danny. Sad.

[Chipchopper]

As my old Dad used to say "nature in the raw is seldom mild"

[Baldric]

Do you not have a 'Sad Footage' link for us Bob?

[Mamyalynne]

I saw the woodpecker peering into the swift's nest hole, didn't know it had got in.

Last year there was a murderous woodpecker.

[Toorak]

I think it was a treecreeper chick that it took

[Mamyalynne]

Ta
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=439251566653363

[Old_Geezer]

If a woodpecker is eating a swallow it's hardly cannibalism. Plenty of birds eat other different species birds.

[Tilly2]

The swallow chicks dying because of the cold and wet is upsetting.

[10ClarionSt]

It's not upsetting. It's nature, as Danny has said.