We watched several gulls eating what appeared to be smaller starfish - but rather than pick them apart like I would have guessed the would sit a work on swallowing them whole.
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Black Turnstones feeding near the Coupville pier.
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A short walk on the pier after breakfast - we watched gulls and crows dropping mussels to open them and saw a Bald Eagle!
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