Alas poor mussel

It can be a hard life being a mussel. One minute you are happily filtering food from the sea, the next an oystercatcher smashes through your protective shell and eats you. Day ruined!

Extra. On a happier note, a photograph of our paternal grandfather in Sault Ste. Marie, Canada. The original is a black and white to which I have added colour. Sadly we never met him.