Winter in Rachel Carson Estuary

There was ice in the marsh grass and wind enough to keep most wildlife hunkered down. Ther were small birds on the south side of the banks avoiding the north wind. Dunlin, plovers and one Willet and in the brush a Cardinal.

Bird tracks and wild pony tracks were mixed like artwork in the mud.

January 10

Wintter

Wintter

April 20th--rainy/windy/high tide

Rain and wind kept birds to north and down low. The most whimbrels and willets herein the last 6 months. Snowy egrets, kildeer Dunlin, common tern and great egrets plus Grackles and a couple merganser hens.

Birds from earlier this winter

Belted Kingfisher
Cooper's Hawk
Great Egret

Sanderling in grass, Brown Pelican, and Yellowlegs stretching out

March 2 kayak trip

Oystercatcher with bands on each leg Pair of Dunlin in winter plummage--there were many more


pair of yellowlegs windy and at near low tide--there were lots of "peeps" or shorebirds unidentified--pelicans, cormorant, snowy egret, kildeer, gulls of course, oystercatchers, sandpipers, several tricolored heron, ibis and a solitary hen merganser