Sunrise over the Great Peconic Bay
Laurel, NY, Long Island
Great Peconic Bay Sunrise |
Great Peconic Bay |
Jellyfish caught in the sand at low tide |
Very tiny Beach Hopper, Amphipod, in my hand, sometimes called a sand flea but it does not bite humans. You can see just how tiny it is by the size of my hand print ridges! They were hopping all over the beach just above the tide line. More on the Beach Hopper. |
Large white ridged shell is called a False Angle Wing. |
Another False Angle Wing Shell along with Slipper Shells, Ocean Crab Shell and Red Seaweeds. |
Broken Whelk and Common Razor Clam with some Slipper Shells. |
Red and Green Sea weeds |
More on the Soft-shelled Clam |
Common Atlantic Slipper Snails & Shells, Jingle Shells and a few Atlantic Bay Scallops |
Along with numerous Slipper & Jingle Shells is this Stout Tagelus |
More on the Common Razor Clam |
Found two Sea Robins left on the shore to die. This one was stabbed through its body. Sea Robins are aggressive and will interfere with people fishing for other fish like Stripped Bass or Blue Fish and are consider junk fish. |
More on the Eastern Mud Snail |
This Whelk Egg Case is that of the Knobbed Whelk. More on the Knobbed Whelk Egg Case |
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