Purple Sands

At least 3 Purple sandpipers at Tenby nr the new lifeboat station this afternoon - there could well have been more - a few turnstone too. Also 70+ herring gulls feasting on many thousands of starfish washed up on castle beach. The strandline was heaped with them though what caused such large numbers to be washed up I'm not sure. The Herring Gulls seemed to team up in pairs to rip the starfish apart, a bit like pulling a christmas cracker except whoever got the smallest portion got the meal because starfish are an such awkward shape and texture for even a gull to swallow.