Day 19.163: Beach babies

Exile #2 and I were not the only parents with our babies at the beach yesterday evening. Here - for example - are the piping plovers:

 

Day 19.150: Sunday afternoon on the beach

We wondered if we might see piping plover chicks but had to settle for the baby eiders. We did see a couple of piping plovers:

And enjoyed watching the common terns hunting:

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

Day 19.037: Washington’s Birthday

Today goes by various names but for me it is one of the holidays that my workplace observes and it was a beautiful sunny day.

After a morning getting some chores done, Exile #2 and I ventured out in the afternoon for a walk along the beach at Old Orxhard Beach. We ended up walking over four miles and - for the first time in a while - both felt rather over-dressed for the weather.

Day 19.034: Turtle showers

All along Clearwater beach - between the sand and the road were beach showers with a variety of cute turtle sculptures. Here is one (with a palm tree for good measure).

I’m not in sunny Florida now, but it is the weekend.

Day 19.010: Beach

Maybe it was worth a bit of trouble to get here!

Day 19.007: Snow on the beach

Our nature group met this morning at Bayview beach. The tide was coming in over the beach during a snowstorm - always surprising to see the snow right up to the edge of the water.