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We've been seeing little tiny crabs (a centimeter or less across) lurking in holes, or scuttling short distances away from them, on the salt marsh (in Inwood Hill Park) for the last few years. They're only visible at low tide: mud-colored bodies, with bits of yellow on their claws.
Rarely and more recently, we'd seen larger crab shells, on the mud or, as today, on the grass.
This afternoon, with the tide partway out, we saw two larger crabs in the water, swimming and crawling (depending on depth and whether there were rocks in the way). I'd guess the larger was two or three inches across (5-8 cm, for my metric friends), the larger about two-thirds that size. One was moving toward the shore, the other away, parallel to the first;![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude suggested that they didn't like each other, an easy guess because any two random crabs tend not to like each other.
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Rarely and more recently, we'd seen larger crab shells, on the mud or, as today, on the grass.
This afternoon, with the tide partway out, we saw two larger crabs in the water, swimming and crawling (depending on depth and whether there were rocks in the way). I'd guess the larger was two or three inches across (5-8 cm, for my metric friends), the larger about two-thirds that size. One was moving toward the shore, the other away, parallel to the first;
cattitude suggested that they didn't like each other, an easy guess because any two random crabs tend not to like each other.[cross-posting to
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