Nice to see 13 Purple Sandpipers roosting on Emmet rock at high tide yesterday afternoon at the north end of the beach. There were 4 Turnstones with them. Also a Great Northern Diver, and a male Common Scoter off shore, plus an an odd, large, sub-adult gull that flew north at dusk with other gulls that appeared to have a double-length bill!
Unless it was carrying something, this is presumably some kind of aberrant growth?