Life in Newburgh on Ythan

By Talpa

Enough to make your eyes water!

The favourite food, by far, of the local Eider ducks are the bivalve molluscs that we call mussels.
They swallow them whole  and break up the shells in their muscular gizzards. The sharp shell fragments pass through the intestines and out in the usual way!
You can see whole mussels in a previous blip.

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