What the Heck is This Doing on the Beach?

It was a cold, raw day at the beach, 45 F, cloudy, and blowing 15 knots out of the northeast. 

Skye angling for a treat.  She's still being civil despite the fact that we held her down and combed out a pile of underfur to give to the birds.  One side was more than enough..

So this is the what the heck. It's clearly a Red Fish (aka Red Drum; Sciaenops ocellatus).  But what the heck is a freshly dead one doing on the beach this time of year?  They're an occasional visitor to the Bay in summer, but usually scoot out of the bay at the first hint of cold weather.  Did this one get confused and forget to migrate?  Listen the Al Gore and think that global warming was real?  I guess I'll never know.

There are still a few Buffleheads around, but they might be thinning out; I only saw two pairs.  This pair of Scaup (Greater or Lesser?) were hanging out in the harbor channel

 Just a raw day...

Despite walking the full three mile round trip, I found only a single, tiny broken sharks tooth.  At least I wasn't skunked. Despite walking only half the distance, Georgia found two.  Curses!