Ft Desoto County Park: 1-5-18

Wilson’s Plover, bathing

They will resort to feigning injury, such as a broken wing, to distract potential predators.

Well-camouflaged in the wrack line

Double-crested Cormorant

The large waves came crashing in

The cormorant just sat there as wave after wave came crashing in.

 Tower just north of the Gulf Pier last year

Same tower after Hurricane Irma

White Pelicans off our seawall: 1-14-18

Scratch that itch!

Incoming

North Shore Beach: 1-5-18

Great Blue Heron

Female Red-breasted Mergansers

Feeding

Moving on

Incoming Snowy Egret

Looks like it stepped in a bucket of yellow paint

Bird Survey: Pinellas NWR, 12-31-17

Young Brown Pelican

Adult stretching its wings

Wish I were a contortionist like this guy

Watching us watching him

Royal Tern

They tend to feed on fish rather than crabs, more than any other tern.