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This morning I took a solo adventure to Alki Beach and walked from the lighthouse south and I was lucky enough to unintentionally time my visit when it wasn’t high tide. It was typical Pacific Northwest spring weather on the beach, cool, wet and very windy. I wandered the beach for an hour and touched the sea anemones, found plenty of tiny, dead crabs and slid over the seaweed. Crows were all over the beach foraging and as I watched one, it flipped over rocks looking underneath. I followed suit and found under most rocks, and especially the big ones, dozens of small crabs. If I found a particularly suitable rock and flipped it, there would be a dozen crabs of different shapes and colors quickly scuttling for cover.
Later I watched a crow with a shell fly up about 10 feet into the air and drop it on the rocks below. It repeated this process five or six times before it broke open the shell and got the contents out.
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