I made a trip to Cape Cod yesterday and visited Paine's Creek at sunset. It was a great experience, and I happened to come across this couple collecting clams, while the sun was setting. Just magic

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I was waist deep shooting photos of wading birds in TigerTail Lagoon on Marco Island when I saw a blurry blob behind the egret when it clicked that a Raccoon had come out of the mangroves to dig for clams. He was there for just a few minutes but I was able to catch him discovering me. The look on his face!

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Radiograph of a clamshell

Clamming on a sand bar near Chisik Island, Alaska.

Another shore bird with one of those razor clams. You might have seen the discussion in my post a couple of days ago of the Willet, and how the bird gets the meat out. It takes a bit of work, but once it manages to squeeze in, it pretty much digs and shakes to get the meat loose and out. Clam momentarily got away from it here on a big shake.

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This shot was taken from the cable car 360 in Tung Chung Bay,Lantau Island^^

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The canopy of the entrance of the 2004 Olympic Park in Athens, Greece.

Design: Santiago Calatrava.

Scallop Clam

The mollusc (or mollusk) shell is typically a calcareous exoskeleton which encloses, supports and protects the soft parts of an animal in the phylum Mollusca, which includes snails, clams, tusk shells, and several other classes. Not all shelled molluscs live in the sea; many live on the land and in freshwater.

Some empty clams that I saw in the riverbed.

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American Oystercatcher with a freshly dug up clam.

With the snow capped peaks of the Aleutian Mountain Range as a backdrop in the Katmai National Park and Preserve, an Alaskan Brown Bear searches for clams along the shore of a small stream.

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Clam Beach is a locality in Humboldt County, California. It is located 13.7 km north of Arcata, at an elevation of 10 m. Clam Beach 'is where Highway 101 meets the sea.

When I heard that I might find limpkins at Harn’s Marsh in Lehigh Acres I went to look them up on my trusty iBird app as I had no clue what they looked like. Armed with this knowledge I set off one morning in search of them and a couple of other species I had not seen or photographed before. The Marsh did not disappoint, for no sooner had I got out of my car and headed for a pond I saw limpkins around the shoreline. Score!

I knew that they ate mollusks, but I had no idea how they opened them up. I soon found out. A limpkin picked up a clam shell and proceeded to tip it up on end. It would slip the tip of its beak inside the shell and then proceed to lift it up and then push down, hoping to pry the shell apart. After a few attempts it succeeded in opening the shell and then downed the treat inside. Nature is so ingenious!

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I love a 365 as you never know where your next photo is going to happen. I was out shopping in Birmingham and looked up and saw a new angle on the Selfridges building. Very pleased!

Coastal brown bear (Ursus arctos) cubs at low tide, sometimes clamming and sometimes just having a good time. Silver Salmon Creek area, Lake Clark National Park on the coast of Cook Inlet. Alaska. Conservation status: Least Concern #NaturalExposures

A glorious sunset at Clam Harbour Beach.

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An Alaska brown bear is reflected at low tide as he searches for clams along the shore of Cook Inlet, Alaska. The bears sniff out clams buried in the sand and mud and dig rapidly with their large claws to catch them before the clams move deeper.

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Macro of the edge of a giant clam shell at the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla, California

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Happy Sliders Sunday!

These guys were popping up and spitting all over the beach!

A quilt, titled Graffiti Glam Clam, exhibited at "Quilt Show 2023: An Exposition" in Voorheesville, NY. Awarded a first-place blue ribbon. Quilt name: Graffiti Glam Clam. Quilter: JRS. Exhibit sponsor: QUILT Inc. (Quilters United In Learning Together). What a cool name for a quilt! Fortunately the light helped me to capture textures and shadows in my photo, so that the image isn't just flat.

A Black turnstone can be seen feeding on a clam along a tributary ocean shoreline in Equimalt Lagoon, B.C., Canada.

The Black Turnstone breeds in western Alaska as well as in the Yukon-Kushkokwim Delta. They winter in the rocky shores along the Pacific coast of North America from southern Alaska southwards as far as north-west Mexico where it occurs in Baja California and Sonora with a single record from Nayarit.

The Black Turnstone is a small wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria, the Ruddy Turnstone being the other.

Kodiak Bear (Ursus Arctos Middendorffi)

The new LRT (Light Rapid Transit) station has an entrance that resembles that of a clam shell. Of course, since the trains flow in both directions, perhaps this is the exit making it more of a lobster tail.