An early morning walk on the beach brings us to foraging seabirds including terns, seagulls and piping plovers. They are spending most of their time in the rack, full of seaweed, bait fish, bivalves and tiny trapped crabs.

The plovers dart in and out of the waves trying with their beaks to grab a buried crab hiding in the sand. Rarely are they successful but we stand transfixed, watching them in their quest for a meal.