Crab-Eating Gull
In search of our Snowy Owl (who seems to have disappointingly disappeared) around the Kent Narrows, I spotted this juvenile Ring-billed Gull feasting on a female Chesapeake Bay blue crab on a dock at one of the local marinas.
At one point, I told the juvenile I was jealous that it was still eating crabs this late in the season.
So the generous gull made me an offer!
“Here, you want some?”
I declined with thanks for his offer AND the photo op,
but so wished that I really was home pickin’ at a pile of crabs!
 If you love seafood & have never had a Chesapeake Bay blue crab (they turn orange when cooked), crab cake or meal made with authentic Chesapeake Bay blue crab meat, you seriously don’t know what you’re missing!
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Yum!!! :))))
One of my favorites, crabs that is! 🙂
I live on the western shore, but heck yeah. How could anyone not love crabs?! 😀
Wait. Are you a western shore Marylander??
Two thumbs up! :))
Now it makes sense why your a Baltimore sports fan! 🙂 Don’t know why, but I thought you were in Florida, lol. Was just on the phone with my son in Ellicott City, we have a significant snow storm heading our way this weekend….. Yikes!
Yikes is right! 😦
Looks like he had a good meal! As for me, believe it or not I care about them & think they have the ability to suffer, as do other crustaceans (lobster) & fish as well. I don’t eat crabs (or any seafood) anymore but when I did I wasn’t crazy about it & very picky about which parts I ate.
Lovely captures of the young gull’s feast! Those crab cakes are the best!!
It’s a competition with our 15+ restaurants at Kent Narrows & on Kent Island on who makes the best jumbo lump crab cakes, which is great for us local crab cake lovers! 🙂
That’s a great competition! You can enjoy the fruits of it. Yummy 🙂
yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah!!!!!!!! 🙂
It is surprising that they eat such large crustaceans. Usually they are small mud and sand crabs. Lovely shots Donna!
Thanks! The gulls around here know what’s best, lol. I’ve even watched a Great Blue Heron eat one. 🙂
Someday I’d like to compare one to our Dungeness crabs. I can’t imagine anything better! 😉
I’d love to compare them side by side also! Wouldn’t that be a delicious feast?!! 🙂
It looks like both humans and the gulls eat pretty well around there, and it was mighty nice of the gull to offer up such a feast in return for your great portraits of it.
Yep, we all do! The rockfish is to die for as well. They say the oysters are too, but I draw the line with that one. lol
I grew up crabbing at my Grandmother’s house in St. Mary’s county. She lived on the river, and boy was that the best food ever!
St Mary’s County is gorgeous; the Potomac & Patuxent Rivers are both awesome rivers to boat, we’ve boated the CBay & rivers for 25 years, trying crab cakes everywhere. If you recall Solomon’s Island, Stoney’s restaurant (3 locations) has the best on the Bay! It’s 1 1/2 hrs from us by car or boat, a great day trip destination. 🙂
I was very disappointed. I thought from a quick glance at the title that I was going to see a crab eating a gull. Ah well, your great shots made up for it.
I can see now how that might have seemed….sometimes trying to be creative with these darn titles is mind-boggling…..glad I made up with the shots. 🙂
There was a perfectly good hyphen there which I missed. 🙂
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Yum, you really got some superb crab shots…
Thanks Charlie! 🙂
Looks awfully good to me!
I did me too!
He really was enjoying his meal. I love crab, and yours looks very good too. 🙂
He did a great job that’s for sure. 🙂 I was surprised another gull hadn’t come along to try & take it from him, lol.
Remarkable captures! 🙂
Thank you very much, Amy, he was hilariously entertaining! 🙂