Day 19.040: Four miles on the beach

As I mentioned, on Presidents Day, Exile #2 and I went for a walk on the beach at Old Orchard Beach. We ended up walking 4.2 miles which took us from south of the pier nearly to the Scarborough town line and back.

Here is some of what we saw along the way:

American herring gull

Rock pigeons on the pier

The largest gull in the world (great black-backed gull)

Clam for dinner

The pier was wearing ice shorts

Sanderling

Horned grebe

Common loon

Sanderlings

Sanderlings in flight

Wind vane

Some of the 31 sanderlings that we counted when several groups converged

Another clam bites the dust