Goony bird way out over the sea.

A relatively large solitary one.

The big flat blades.

Small stars under the same rock.

Clump of eggs? Seaweed starter? Was not particularly soft to the touch.

Dune grass.

Insect damage on leaves of some kind of introduced/planted cottonwood/poplar.

On the underside of a willow leaf.

Eating a thistle leaf and making little webs over itself.

Lots eating willow leaves.

Woody-stemmed shrub/bush.

Rust and rust-induced galls on the leaves of a woody shrub I haven't IDed yet.

Soft to the touch, as I recall.

Tiny fly near some goldenrod leaf mines.

On (I think) Goldenrod.

On Rumex.

On Rubus.

Stem gall on willow, I think too young to be identified.

On Salix.

On Red Alder.

On Red Alder.

On Rumex.