Took Julie out in the field again yesterday, helping her collect cockles and crabs...you can click on the photos to make them larger
Julie's field site, Hooper's Inlet
Julie's field site, Hooper's Inlet
Julie collecting crabsVideo of Julie searching for her crab species
And she found it - the stalk-eyed crab...only 71 more to go
A cool looking crab species with a white band
Another type of crab
Me in waders
5 comments:
my eyes must really getting bad, i cant see the crabs. ha ha :) mom
Yes, but what birds did you see out there?
HA! I've taken lots of bird photos at this inlet before and I was in a hurry to get back to school to start working in the genetics lab (just starting my DNA extractions for my microsatellite work). Anyway, birds...variable oystercatchers, red-billed gulls, the hybrid stilts, shags (what they call cormorants here but I didn't look at them with the binocs so the little shag? maybe) and white-faced herons. I heard quite a few song birds but I don't know anyone who can teach me those and I haven't found a cd yet and well, most of them are introduced anyway. Still on the look-out for the royal spoonbill...
cool...but it seems like when you run on the beach you'd be crushing the crabs!!
that's not a beach. That's an inlet and it's mud and rocks. The beach where I run is like other beaches you'd be familiar with...all sand...you can walk along barefoot...
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