Beware of Falling Clams
/Two gulls chasing each other this morning, fighting over a quahog. First they almost collide with my head, then they drop the clam on me.
Not an everyday find
/Atlantic Puffin, Pine Point Beach, Maine
Don't call it a seagull!
/
In New England, winter is for gull-watching. I stood on Jodrey State Fish Pier in the fog and drizzle of a late Friday morning in January, inside a roiling cloud of gray and white birds. A stocky fisherman in orange foul-weather gear had just thrown a bucketful of...
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/Hogging the spotlight again.
Pine Point, Maine
Meanwhile, in Australia...
/...a chicken farmer named Swampy Marsh is using sheepdogs to protect Little Penguins from foxes.
Little Penguin