Oystercatchers

A couple of oystercatchers and a juvenile in front with the lighter colored beak.

 

Having shucked hundreds if not thousands of oysters, opening the bivalves is no easy task for many. Obviously the birds do not carry an oyster knife with them when foraging for dinner. Do they, like gulls, take the shellfish for a ride and drop them from a shell splitting altitude?

Jerry

 

I haven't seen them dropping anything, they look to eat just the small stuff tucked in between the rocks and the pebbles on the beach.

 

Another first in seeing these with a name...you have such interesting surroundings...