It seems like every time we go to the beach we see lots of Sanderlings scurrying about, whether it be on the ocean side or bay side. (Click on blog link for other photo.)

“This is the little sandpiper that runs up and down the beach ‘like a clockwork toy,’ chasing the receding waves.” I bet you’ve seen many of them as you walk down the local beaches.

Their diet consists “mostly sand crabs and other invertebrates. Feeds on a wide variety of small creatures on beach, including sand crabs, amphipods, isopods, insects, marine worms and small mollusks.”