Octopus wreck at Auchmithie and another weird photo......

In a small area of the shingle beach at Auchmithie today I counted 17 dead Octopus and 4 Ling, all casualties of the strong easterly winds and huge seas of late. Perhaps a good sign was there were no dead birds or had the gulls just eaten then all? I've also included an older photo taken in my overgrown garden (wildlife garden) of a visit by some Starlings, 227 of them to be precise!

Octopus, deceased at Auchmithie

227 Starlings, they stayed for about 4 minutes a few years ago