Landings Harbor Marina

This week on Wildlife Wednesday the star of the show is the Blue Crab!
Fun Facts:
1. Blue crabs have paddle-shaped hind legs that help them swim efficiently.
2. Male blue crabs are called "Jimmys" and have blue claws, while females have red tips on their claws.
3. Crabs can regenerate lost limbs, allowing them to survive attacks from predators or escape dangerous situations.

This week on Wildlife Wednesday the star of the show is the Osprey!
Fun Facts:
1. Ospreys often build their nests on platforms, dead trees, or even utility poles.
2. Ospreys outer toe is reversible, allowing them to grasp slippery fish with two toes in front and two behind.
3. Ospreys are excellent fishers with a catch success rate up to 70%.

This week on Wildlife Wednesday the star of the show is the Corn Snake!
Fun Facts:
1. The name "corn snake" may come from the markings on their bellies, which resemble a checkerboard pattern, similar to kernels of maize.
2. Corn snakes have five methods of locomotion, including lateral undulation, side-winding, concertina movement, rectilinear locomotion, and slide-pushing.
3. Corn snakes smell with their tongues, using the Jacobson's organ in the roof of their mouth to detect scents.

This week on Wildlife Wednesday the star of the show is the Flounder!
Fun Facts:
1. Flounders are known for their ability to change color and pattern to blend in with their surroundings, making them masters of camouflage.
2. Flounder are born with an eye on each side of their head, but as they develop, one eye migrates to the other side, resulting in both eyes on the same side of the body.
3. Flounders are ambush predators, meaning they lie in wait for prey.

This week on Wildlife Wednesday the star of the show is the Honey Bee!
Fun Facts:
1. Honey bees communicate with each other using dances and pheromones.
2. Only female bees have stingers.
3. Honeybees have five eyes.

🌼Happy 1st day of Spring🌼

This week on Wildlife Wednesday the star of the show is the Loggerhead sea turtle!
Fun Facts:
1. Female return to the same nesting grounds where they were born to lay their eggs.
2. Turtle shells are made of over 50 bones fused together.
3. Loggerhead sea turtles use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate.

This week on Wildlife Wednesday the star of the show is the Right Whale!
Fun Facts:
1. Right whales can grow to be around 50 feet in length and weigh up to 70 tons..
2. Right whales consume more than 2,200 pounds of copepods every day.
3. The right whale got its name from whalers who called it the "right" whale to hunt.

This week on Wildlife Wednesday the star of the show is the Cannonball Jellyfish!
Fun Facts:
1. The Cannonball Jellyfish is a carnivore that feeds on fish eggs, red drum fish larvae, and planktonic larvae of mollusks and snails.
2. Cannonball Jellyfish can clone themselves.
3. Cannonball Jellyfish are edible.

This week on Wildlife Wednesday the star of the show is the Pelican!
Fun Facts:
1. Baby pelicans need to be fed up to 30 times per day.
2. Pelicans live on every continent except Antarctica.
3. Pelicans can help fishermen locate fish by following the pelicans' lead.

This week on Wildlife Wednesday the star of the show is the Otter!
Fun Facts:
1. Baby otters are called pups.
2. Otters use tools to break open shellfish. They store a favorite rock in their chest pouch to use for this purpose.
3. Sea otters have the densest fur of any animal, with up to 2.6 million hairs per square inch.

This week on Wildlife Wednesday the star of the show is the Dolphin!
Fun Facts:
1. Bottlenose dolphins can hold their breath for up to 12 minutes.
2. Dolphins only sleep with half of their brain at a time.
3. A group of Dolphins is called a Pod.