A big gulp

A BBC crew took this underwater footage of gulls and common murres feeding on herring, and then got a big surprise at the end.
The video is part of the BBC series Nature's Great Events. The David Attenborough-free American version, Nature's Amazing Events, is now perched atop my Netflix queue.
Via Huckleberry Days.

Herring spawn in heart of Vancouver

Scientists have discovered a ribbon of herring spawn about a kilometer long on newly restored shoreline in Vancouver's False Creek, says this story in the Vancouver Sun. For those of you unfamiliar with Vancouver jargon, False Creek isn't a creek at all, but an inlet, which snakes under the shadow of high-rises southeast of downtown. There are no modern records of herring spawning there before.