There was a mallard with 7 babies on the patio on the building across the alley from my office window.

Mom took off for a bit and a seagull came in. It picked off the ducklings one by one. It would mess around with them a bit and swallow them whole.

Amazing how fast the little guys could run, but the seagull knew how to herd them into corners and pick them out of the shrubs they thought they concealed in.

The irony is that some crazy bird lover lady dumps a crap-ton of seed and bread by the burrard skytrain station every morning to feed all the pigeons and seagulls so there's always a bunch of seagulls hanging around. Should have taken a video of the duckling carnage to show her lol