Stop Bugging Me!

 

Common Cinquefoil

Leaves Of 3 Leave Them Be! Poison Ivy

 

Flying Over Rhode Island

This is the same area as in the photo below this, but this shows more area around it. 

Quonochontaug Breachway Arial View

This is where I went to see all the horseshoe crabs...my flight instructor took me over it and let me take a few pics. Cool eh?

Silver Lining

 

Spy

 

Starfish On The Beach

 

Catching Waves

 

Beach Bunnies

 

Wild Rose

 

Clear To Land

 

Rays Of Hope

 

Underneath

 

Dead Skate

 

Hitch Hiker

 

Horseshoe Crabs....Mating Season

The female drags the male to the water's edge. Once on shore, she uses her pusher legs to form a shallow nest between four and six inches deep between high- and low-tide lines. Here she deposits 5-7 clumps of 2000-4000 eggs each, or up to 20,000 eggs in aspawning episode. The attached male and any additional or satellite males that are surrounding the spawning female, move with her as she lays each clump of eggs. She will repeat this process several times over the spawning cycle laying 90,000 eggs or more in a season. It is estimated that less than ten of these eggs will survive to adulthood. Go HERE to learn more.

Devil's Purse

I found these on the beach when I went on photosafari and after asking around, one of my managers (Thank you Tim) told me he believed it to be the egg casing of a Skate, I googled it, and this is the description I got:
The skate is related to sharks and rays. It can range in size from one to three feet. Its flat body is white underneath, and its top colors vary from light brown to dark brown with black, roundish spots or bars. The skate is commonly found near shore in the summer, and you may see them riding the waves from the beach. Their skin is rough and prickly, but the thorny tail does not have a stinger like their ray cousins. It is called a Mermaid's Purse, or a Devil's Purse. 

Cormorants In Flight

 

Sandpiper