People food

In midwinter, the seaweed harvest on the shore is limited; here, it's mostly shreds of red algae, much battered, and mostly rotting. Occasionally, then, I supplement my critters' diet with a bit of people food, from the supermarket. Dried nori seaweed, made for sushi wraps. The brand I buy contains nothing but seaweed; no flavourings or additives. And all my critters love it! (Even the mud snails.)

Here's a green shore crab, hogging a section for himself, keeping an eye out for marauding hermits.

"Mine, mine, mine, all mine!"

I gave them enough for a small plate of sushi last night. This morning, there wasn't a shred left.

Salmon bits

A bucketload of salmon bits, to dump in the chuck, starting a frenzy of screeching, wheeling, flapping gulls.

"Soup's on!"

I was coming up from the beach, facing into the setting sun, half-blinded, when the racket started. I liked the way the light shines through the edges of the gulls' wings and tail feathers.

A Skywatch post.