The temperature was 60 degrees on the beach this morning when the sun came up around 6:00 AM. The laughing gulls and sanderlings were noisily feeding on horseshoe crab eggs by the first light. At our point on the beach, sanderlings were the only non-gull shorebirds that were present for the morning activities. The water's edge was filled with eggs.

The picture on the left shows the sun coming up over the dunes near Baie-Chalet. In the middle, we can see the density of the sanderlings on the beach feeding at the water line. The picture on the right shows some horseshoe crab eggs near the wrack line on the beach. The eggs vary in color, but evidently all taste delicious.