The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds and/or flowers. All are worthy additions to the bucket. Please let us know what is going on around you in a comment. Include, as close as is comfortable for you, where you are located. Each note is a record that we can refer to in the future as we try to understand the patterns that are quietly unwinding around us.
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I've been very lax in my bucketing duties recently. Here is an attempt to make up for it, with at least one more substantial diary to follow.
A while back I did a bucket on ghost crabs. Here are some more pictures of them, this time on the beach at St Joseph Peninsula State Park. In the evening they seem to like to hang out at the surf line for reasons unknown to me. I took advantage of the great power of my new camera to take photos in the dim light.
Below is a beach tiger beetle, not a ghost crab. But it is a cool picture so I thought I would stick it in. And they are ecologically similar, being beach predators although I imagine the crabs scavenge at least as much food as they catch alive.