Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Day 13.215: Clams - a photo story

During our Saturday morning walk near Ferry Beach, we witnessed the following events.

Although it used to surprise us, we've become accustomed to seeing the gulls take clams up above the beach and drop them onto the sand to break them open:


Usually at that point they try to eat it as quickly as possible while guarding against the other gulls that try to steal their ready-prepped seafood. This one however did the opposite - making a big show of its success:


It was then we remembered the group of "teens" we had spotted a few minutes before:


and sure enough, here they came:


After all three arrived, the adult quickly left them to their squabbling, flew out a little way, plopped down into the water and amazingly took off with another surf clam in its beak, flew a little way down the beach and had its own quiet clam breakfast:

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