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Jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
Whilst visiting the North Somerset coast at the week end, I had fun watching this busy bird enjoying the pickings at low tide in an intertidal harbour. Unaware of me, he came quite close, but they are human wary birds and as soon as I was spotted, he was off!
Taken with my 100mm macro as I was beach combing too!!
Back to the west coast - the long, flat beaches of Torrey Pines. My version of a photo taken by a friend using some sort of gadget. [Yes, that's me out there, happily splashing along in the Pacific Ocean].
Cheesy I know but I couldn't resist. Beachcombers was the TV series that usually finished the Saturday morning kids time slot on TV when I was growing up, Still now I remember the theme tune. So there's a certain novelty to me of having watched it as a kid from a small rundown northern seaside town in England and now being here, in Gibsons BC, right where it all got filmed. Beachcombers was my first ever view of life in Canada (aside from a very badly dubbed 1970s French-Canadian film, The Christmas Martian) so it's still just a bit surreal to me sometimes how things turned out.
This was taken on this mornings wonderful stroll along the beach at Carmarthen Bay. A lovely interesting long beach and a new one on me. May need to go back :)
The only crop done here was a minor rotation, but it was done nonetheless. Although I could have gone lower, the angle I was shooting at enabled the foreground to blur out of focus perfectly, a type of shot I have been after for a while. Hoping to try for some different subjects at the same location (I have seen some Ringed plovers regularly and a fly-by Dunlin once).
ISO: 2016
F-stop: f/5.6
Exposure: 1/800
Another of the minibots, Beachcomber is a cool little Bot, he transforms by extending his body lenght too, which was not easy on that scale.
The Beachcombers Restaurant, at the foot of Prince Street in Old Town Alexandria, was constructed around 1947. It was built out on the water on concrete pilings with a pier and walkway connecting it to the mainland. Over the years, the shoreline moved further out, and the property is now entirely on dry land. Recently the derelict old building was replaced by a new boat club that reflects the old restaurant's shape, including the unique cantilevered balconies that originally hung over the water. This postcard photo also shows the old steamer that ran from the Southwest waterfront to Mount Vernon and Marshall Hall amusement park and back.
Explore February 11, 2008
this family milled around in the fog looking for treasures and seeking seagulls
Everything wanted a piece of the herring action, some caught them in the ocean while others wandered the beach for their fill.
The remains of the Beachcomber nightclub along Wollaston Beach in Quincy (MA), which closed in 2015. It first opened in 1959 and during its heyday was a serious venue for many acts, including: Louis Armstrong, Loretta Lynn, Bobby Darin, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Linda Rondstadt, and Jay Leno.
Tides of 20 feet endlessly shape the shores of Cook Inlet, sculpting landscapes of dark sand, sea, and stone into the elaborate stages for the lives of coastal bears. Encountering a beachcombing bear on a stroll is as common as meeting a stranger on a winter walk along the east coast shoreline. Low tides provide access to shellfish and salmon that supplement a bear’s predominantly vegetarian diet, while high tides bestow bears with adequate time for lengthy, inevitable naps for which bears are well known. #BrownBears