The sandy pellets seen below are excavated sand from plugged entrances. As the tide rises, the crabs plug up the entrances to their burrows with sand, which they then roll back out as the tide recedes.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Fiddler Crab Burrows
Near the high tide line on the north edge of Sag Harbor Cove, a bunch of crab holes, that I think are fiddler crab. Oblique tunnels, very tidy entrances. This is an amazing video showing male fiddlers eating on the shore. How weird to spend life walking sideways! This is a photo of the trails fiddlers leave behind them. Looks like mad sewing machines loose on the beach.
The sandy pellets seen below are excavated sand from plugged entrances. As the tide rises, the crabs plug up the entrances to their burrows with sand, which they then roll back out as the tide recedes.
The sandy pellets seen below are excavated sand from plugged entrances. As the tide rises, the crabs plug up the entrances to their burrows with sand, which they then roll back out as the tide recedes.
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