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Waves crash on the rocky beach at San Francisco’s Lands End as the Golden Gate Bridge rises in the distance.
A Sanderling at low tide checking out the remains of a crab for its next meal.
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Rock Away Beach
Pacifica, CA
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I'm back from holiday! Now it's time to get some rest.
This shot is made at North sea beach in Sotra island, Bergen, Norway.
Early evening light from North Maui. Hard to believe we left there nearly one month ago.
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Center focus on a Spot Swordtail in a sea of mud=puddling butterflies.
Wikipedia: Graphium nomius, the spot swordtail, is a butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia that belongs to the swallowtail family. The spot swordtail gets its name from the line of distinct white spots along the margin of its wings. It is known from southern and eastern India (including Sikkim and Assam), Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Kampuchea.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphium_nomius
Mud-puddling, or simply puddling, is a behavior most conspicuous in butterflies, but occurs in other animals as well, mainly insects; they seek out nutrients in certain moist substances such as rotting plant matter, mud and carrion and they suck up the fluid. Where the conditions are suitable, conspicuous insects such as butterflies commonly form aggregations on wet soil, dung or carrion. From the fluids they obtain salts and amino acids that play various roles in their physiology, ethology and ecology. This behavior also has been seen in some other insects, notably the leafhoppers, e.g. the potato leafhopper, Empoasca fabae.
An inhabitant of the Wadden Sea tidal flats.
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