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Sand, Surf, and Shorebirds

Across the dunes there's the ocean rumbling onto the sandy beach.

What a wonderful way to start the day.

There are all sorts of shorebirds: sandpipers and sanderlings and plovers.

and pelicans

There were gulls on the wing

and mixed lots of shore birds strolling on the strand

And twice we drove, not more than 5 minutes from the condo, just before dusk

and watched snowy egrets returning home to their rookery for the night.

On a reconnaissance trip looking for muscadine grapes we found

a flock of cattle egrets in a cut-over corn field.

And once we spotted, perched up in a snag,

a white ibis, recognizable with its great, curved bill.