Hello Redbeet, I love, love, love the game. I cannot wait for Chapter 2!!
I had a funny "bug' occur it was weird that I even noticed it. I logged in and immediately checked the skies for the seagulls and the water for the shark. I did not see the seagulls at all which is weird as they weren't in my nests or over the raft. I noted an item in the water way off in the distance and it had a high profile but it was not a barrel. Getting as close as I could walk on my raft, I pulled the image to the edge of the screen and darned if it didn't look just like 2 seagulls sitting right next to each other in the water. See the red dashes in .raft1. I thought they looked just like they were sitting in nests. I spun 360 degrees to check my nests, see .raft2. But my nests were empty. Then just for fun I ran over to my nests spun 360 degrees again, see .raft3, and sure enough the 2 dots in the distance took flight and weirdly enough there were feathers in the nest that weren't there before. I hope this can provide some sort of clue as to why any weirdness is occurring like the disappearing tames.
Also, when I had logged back in to take the screenshots, I noticed the birds in flight coming from that same original direction as you can see in 