Walk This Way
by Marnie Patchett
Title
Walk This Way
Artist
Marnie Patchett
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Photograph - Photograph
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Seagull and Sandpipers along the beach. Seagulls are intelligent and clever birds. They learn, remember and even pass on behaviours, such as stamping their feet in a group to imitate rainfall and trick earthworms to come to the surface.
Seagulls’ intelligence is clearly demonstrated by a range of different feeding behaviours, such as dropping hard-shelled molluscs onto rocks so that they break open so they can eat them, and following ploughs in fields where they know upturned grubs and other food sources will be plentiful.
Seagulls can drink both fresh and salt water. Most animals are unable to do this, but seagulls have a special pair of glands right above their eyes which is specifically designed to flush the salt from their systems through openings in the bill.
This photograph was taken on Seaside Beach is just north of MacKerricher State Park where Seaside Creek sometimes flows through the sand to the ocean.
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September 13th, 2016
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