{"id":544405,"date":"2026-04-22T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544405\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:50:13","slug":"dorset-wildlife-in-stunning-rare-coastal-hunting-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544405\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorset wildlife in stunning rare coastal hunting scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Dorset Camera Club member Scott Usher captured the split second a gull hauled a very large crab from the English Channel after diving down to secure its next meal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bournemouthecho.co.uk\/news\/26010615.wildlife-photographer-captures-stunning-birds-prey-christchurch-harbour\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wildlife photographer captures stunning birds of prey in Christchurch Harbour<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Gull captures huge crab at Hengistbury Head\"\/>Gull captures huge crab at Hengistbury Head (Image: Scott Usher, Dorset Camera Club)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The photographer said the impressively large, orange coloured crab fought vigorously to free itself and ultimately escaped.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Usher reported that by the end of the brawl, the bird flew off empty-beaked after a rare on-camera encounter between hunter and prey.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On Facebook Mr Usher said: &#8220;Moments like this don&#8217;t come often !\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It should have been an easy meal but this rarely seen Spider Crab had other plans!&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  To join the Dorset Camera Club, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/echocameraclubdorset?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">facebook.com\/groups\/echocameraclubdorset<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Did you know you can make the Bournemouth Echo your preferred source of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole news in Google?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This means more breaking news and the latest must-read stories from your area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bournemouthecho.co.uk\/news\/25954797.watch-guide-turn-googles-preferred-sources\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Here\u2019s what it means for you and how you can do it<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dorset Camera Club member Scott Usher captured the split second a gull hauled a very large crab from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-544405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}