Wind dancers

A white gull feather was drifting on the wind. Then a raven swooped to snap it up, dropped the feather, and caught it again: 

These two were dancing over the sea:

Whitecaps below:

Bitey babies

The baby cormorants are getting huge:

"Feed me!"

And they bite each other: 

"Hey, play nice!"

A tinier little one snuggling with its parent:  

Raven with pinecone

This raven appeared to be picking out bugs or seeds from within the pinecone, but I also got the impression that it was having fun examining and picking apart this complex object. 

Teal sea

Floating seaweed

Garibaldi fish glimpsed through the waves

Double-Crested Cormorants

Harbor Seals

Parent and baby

*facepalm*

Shorebirds

Sanderlings and Semipalmated Plovers

Their other legs are fine; they just like standing on one leg

Juvenile Black-Bellied Plover

Semipalmated Plover
(Semipalmated means with partially webbed feet)

Least Sandpiper

Wandering Tattler

Seaside

Merganser

Harbor seal

Green anemone

The ages of Western Gull
From back to front: juvenile, second year, adult

Crab shell

Lined shore crab 

An osprey having brunch:

Sleepy owl

"Whoooo goes there?"

zzzzzz

Beautiful camouflage

Cormorants

A gorgeously iridescent Pelagic Cormorant:

The Brandt's Cormorant colony:

The babies have grown!

Rawr!

Check out my blue throat!

Pink and sparkly

A male Anna's Hummingbird showing off his face feathers: