Occasionally
a pounding ocean surf intrudes on even the
mildest days of September. This particular morning only the eider ducks chose
to stay on the water.
A grounded Herring gull weighed the chances that the surf would offer up something edible.
Laughing gulls made a rare roost on shore at Halibut Point.
Double-crested cormorants also considered the turbulence of the waves in their calculus on hunger and fishing.
They preened and oiled their feathers in preparation for a return to the water.
Eventually
some of the them took refuge on shore too.
Swells
rolled in from a tropical storm passing northward out at sea.
A grounded Herring gull weighed the chances that the surf would offer up something edible.
Laughing gulls made a rare roost on shore at Halibut Point.
Their
black-headed breeding plumage was just beginning to molt to gray.
Double-crested cormorants also considered the turbulence of the waves in their calculus on hunger and fishing.
They preened and oiled their feathers in preparation for a return to the water.
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