Fresh crab
I’m surprised to see a Black Guillemot with something that doesn’t look like a fish in its beak. I track it through my lens and see it land.
It looks like a naked crab, completely missing its exoskeleton. It looks like it might have been a Velvet Swimming Crab, Necora puber, because of the flattened paddle on its back leg.
Later in the afternoon, another one appears, this time with the crab missing all its legs.
The Velvet Swimming Crab industry in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland would like to know how they got every edible part of the crab out of its shell. And so would I.
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