Out and About: Hilton Head Edition

We were in Hilton Head recently and got some pix. Unfortunately, the temp hovered in the mid 30s to lower 40s so the smart birds were hunkered down or had flown south even further. Still here’s the first load of what we spotted.

Immature Sanderling working the shore.

Lesser Sandpiper in a mudflat

Lesser Sandpiper

Sanderling

Ring-billed Gull

Lesser Sandpiper

Brown Pelican

 

Female Greater Scaup 

Osprey cruises the beach

A Robinson cruises the beach

A Forsters Tern also cruises the beach

Out and About, Maine Edition: The Double-Crested Cormorant and The Osprey That Commutes

This guy flies by always going the same way, left to right. He settles in the trees on the other side of a point that sticks out into the lake.

We never see him/her go back the other way but here is the flyby from today plus;

• A Double-Crested Cormorant stops by.
• A bunch of Common Loons does Loon Yoga, it's a thing.
• The Spotted Sandpiper returns to hunt water bugs and Common Blue Damselflies
• The Ring-Billed Seagull chooses a new rock

Osprey

Osprey

Same Osprey

I feel that one cannot have too much "Osprey".

Common Loons

Common Loons doing Loon Yoga

Double-Crested Cormorant

Spotted Sandpiper

Spotted Sandpiper

Ring-Billed Gull

Ring-Billed Gull