Love of nature
People who walk the beaches and participate in data collection share a common love of the environment around them. This connection traverses global to local scale.
Ashy Storm Petral
BB gets excited about tubenoses. When he spent time in the Farallons, he had the opportunity to hold baby storm petrals. Here is a photo from that time. For more information about BB and the beach he surveys, please visit his beach page (Nehalem Beach).
Black Oystercatchers
(Haematopus bachmani)
Diane Bilderback sees a lot of different birds on her beach. The ones she counts for data collection are dead; however, she is also an avid birder. Her favorite bird is the Black Oystercatcher. While we walked the beach looking for dead birds, we came across a couple of live oystercatchers. Diane explained to me some of the reasons she loves this bird.
Ninilchik in the Gulf of Alaska
Mike Gravier experiences the beach not just visually, but through other senses as well. He talks about some of the things he enjoys about being on the beach.
Experiencing the beach
You can hear the wind blowing into the microphone and people in the background as Susan talks about some of the sensory experiences about the beach and how this keeps her connected to her beach.