DESPERATE WILDLIFE FIGHTS FOR SURVIVAL ON FRINGES OF HUMBERSTON FITTIES POOLS

Crab eat crab! The darker one is the predator

TODAY'S rains are welcome, but they have come too late to save the lives of many wild creatures - including the crabs that dwell in the Humberston Fitties pools.

Many have perished in the drought. Their corpses are providing prey for the crabs that have survived as well as for hungry gulls and egrets.

This summer has been a Darwinian struggle for survival.

One unusual sight last Sunday morning  was of an eel (or grass snake) swimming in what little water remained.   

Dead or dying creatures provide easy pickings for gulls