Recent Posts Tagged With 'beach'

• Wordless Wednesday

  Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 08:57 in travel, beach, nc, gulls

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• Skywatch Friday at the Beach

  Posted on Friday May 1st, 2009 at 09:58 in travel, beach, fish, atlantic, sunrise, gulls

  I was standing at the water’s edge watching the sun’s first rays color the sand when I heard a screaming flock of gulls further down the beach.  I watched as they swirled and swooped low to the sand.  Curious, I ambled down the beach i...

• Brekkie with a Willet

  Posted on Friday April 10th, 2009 at 06:55 in travel, beach, photos, eating, willet, catoptrophorus semipalmatus, playero pihuihui

  Hmmmm, What’s this?  Looks Snacky. You’ll ‘cuse me if I don’t talk with my mouf full.  (editorial note — cute willet tongue — can you see it?) I will not puke this back up.  Gulp * swallow* gulp*  Work it, wo...

• Beach Birds

  Posted on Saturday March 28th, 2009 at 05:27 in travel, beach, migration, spring, sanderlings

  I am off to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to spend a few days with my cousin.  She and her husband are not birdwatchers, but appreciate that I am, so I will be able make myself scarce a few hours of the day to see what is around.  I hope there ...

• White Ibis-the garbage picker

  Posted on Monday August 4th, 2008 at 07:03 in beach, white, Florida, bird, marsh, ibis, white ibis, wader, eudocimus albus, ibis blanco, red-faced

  When I think of Ibis, I think of heat, marshes, phragmites, salt on my lips and in the air.  And most definitely the south.  While on a business trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in the dead of summer, I decided to go for a swim at 6am.  The heat ...