A nature walk on the saltchuck.

[Dominick]

After eating oysters they must be auk-chucks.    Dominick

[Benni3]

This is the best ,,,,, love it ,,,,

[gstours]

I,m 🤔 thinking a guillemot, settlers. We have some, but usually only out on the water.  Give me another guess tomorrow,  my eyes 👀 will be better.🚣‍♀️🍺🚣‍♀️

[Navidad Nutcase]

Regrding the picture of the black bird on the rocks. It's hard to tell their size in the picture but if they are what we call Black ducks, they don't eat oysters. At least not on the west coast of Vancouver Island they don't. My buddy of several years has an oyster farm (product grows on lines not on racks or the beach )  and when the Black Ducks move in by the hundreds or even thousands, he is smiling. They dive to 14 feet and eat ONLY the mussels growing on his strings. I help with the harvest and this eliminating the mussels sure makes our job easier. Also intersting is that his strings are 18 feet long (deep) and they don't get the last 4 feet cleaned up. They know their diving limit I guess.
Greg

[El Pescador]

I call TIME you two!!!

Time to ask a Bird Brain! ME!

They are Black Oystercatchers!

BINGO!

My work is done here!


Wayne

[Reel 224]

Beautiful state. I only wish i was younger to enjoy that, to old and soft now.

Joe

[Frank]

Beautiful state. I only wish i was younger to enjoy that, to old and soft now.

Joe

Ditto. I really had no idea of what it was like until the past 5 years or so. Seeing it through Gary's eyes is really enlighting.

[gstours]

Hey, I'm getting old too.  I have to hide the pain and suffering as it's my row to hoe.  Live, love, eat, sleep, with no sidewalks nor regretting.🚣‍♀️

[Ron Jones]

I call TIME you two!!!

Time to ask a Bird Brain! ME!

They are Black Oystercatchers!

BINGO!

My work is done here!


Wayne

So,
Do oystercatchers eat oysters?
Ron Jones

[Hardy Boy]

Since we have no oysters here I would have to say maybe. They don't here but they do eat the shellfish (like mussels) we have. Maybe they do further South where there are oysters. You have to be very fast to catch an oyster !!


Cheers:


Todd

[Navidad Nutcase]

The oysters around here are very hard shelled and  attached to rocks so those ducks would have an easy time cat hing them and a ni on impossible task getting  into them.

[El Pescador]

Ron,
This from the internet:  

    "The black oystercatcher eats a variety of invertebrate marine life including mussels, whelks and limpets. Despite its name, it rarely eats oysters! It especially likes to eat creatures that cling to the rocks below the high-tide line. It usually forages at low tide and rests at high tide."

Green Grass & High Tides....


Wayne

[gstours]

Thanks again for everyone adding to my simple post.  It's always good to hear from you, we all have knolage of something that the other person might knot.   Thanks again Alan for making this work.
   Just saying.🚶‍♂️

[CapeFish]

Lovely photos and I learned something new today, the African Black Oyster Catcher has a twin in the US! They look remarkably similar, same genus in fact and ours also don't seem to like oysters much, they prefer mussels and marine worms.

[Steve-O]

This is a great thread, Gary. Very refreshing to enjoy images of Southeast Alaska and especially since I've been there a "few" times. Here's a shot of my nature walk last fall on Prince of Wales island ...south of Gary...about 225 miles. I had my limits for the day and was enjoying the afternoon sun while scouting for some shore fishing spots. Had a nice time talking with a Raven and then a not so nice calling in a Blackie. Found out the scary way that what calls in foxes also works on bears.