Friday, September 18, 2009

Sea Ducks in peril

These are sea ducks, scoters. This group was doing some basking on First Beach in La Push; but, many of them are being found dead on the beaches here, possibly from a sea algae blooming offshore that washes off the oils that keep them from freezing in the sea.


2 comments:

Don and Krise said...

That's horrible. I wasn't even aware of this.

Anonymous said...

your pictures are very cool.. ♥