A stroll on the beach

Oystercatchers

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On Saturday morning I had an hour to spare before the athletics started so I grabbed the camera and headed out  on a walk at low tide. There were plenty of birds around, including the usual suspects: Black-headed gulls, Oystercatchers, Turnstones. There was also a line of Cormorants and a solitary Bar-tailed Godwit. 

Black-headed Gull

Black-headed Gull

young gull

Cormorants taking off

remains of a meal

Turnstone

Oystercatcher

Oystercatchers

Slipper limpet Crepidula fornicata

These molluscs are often seen piled upon each other in an arch, the Latin for arched is fornicata. The bottom ones are female, the top ones male and they change sex as the number of limpets in the arch increases.

Bar-tailed Godwit

Herring Gull

Young one begging for food with a loud squawk.

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Shark kite

Black-headed Gull