Brenda just cannot help herself. Last night we walked to the park at the south end of the boat harbor and as she expected found a mud flat with plenty of feeding birds.
Brenda's dedication has paid off. Since landing in Seattle she has identified 78 species of birds new to her, and is trying to identify several others that she has seen.
The top photos show the Western Seagull at work. The boat harbor floating jetties provide a seemingly endless supply of fresh mussels to the birds. The birds dig out the mussels, take them into the air over the concrete jetties, then drop them to crack them open. They can trash F Dock's main jetty (which is wider than the spur jetties) in days. But the way I see it, it their payback for us trashing their environment.
The bottom photos show the yesterday's twilight scene with Brenda at work.
2 comments:
Clever seagulls over there! Guess you are a lone sailor now Robert?
I have really annoying crows in my front yard - they dunk their bread in my bird bath and foul up the water - I guess they learn from one another but wonder how the first one got the idea. Ditto the mussels.
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