In past years, we’ve enjoyed watching bears here catch salmon as they go up the falls.  This year there are so few salmon jumping that the bears haven’t bothered showing up. 

I got up early this morning hoping to find some mergansers.  The only mergansers I found, however, were flying overhead, on their way to the lake.  I did manage a couple of nice shots of the falls though.

 

Since there wasn’t much action going on at the falls, I headed for the shoreline, hoping to find something to photograph.

While looking for sea stars, or anemones, I spotted this robin scouring the rocks, looking for breakfast.

He seemed to be a very serious fellow, too busy to be bothered by tourists.

 

So, I left Mr. Robin to his worms and went in search of more willing subjects, like this pair of eagles I spotted way up near the top of a tree.

 

 

They didn’t hang around long, so I headed across to the sunny side of the inlet, where I spotted some interesting little islets.  As I poked along the rocky shore, I spotted whole colonies of  anemones, some underwater, and some already exposed by the low tide.

 

So far, I hadn’t spotted any sea urchins.  But, just as I was starting to feel less anxious about getting too close to shore for fear of being punctured by a sea urchin, around the next rocky point I found big piles of sea urchins.  And, just under the surface of the water I spotted hundreds of baby sea urchins as well.  Just goes to show that you can never let your guard down.

 

This greater yellowlegs was busy looking for low tide breakfast delights.