The next morning we arose early to join one of the park rangers, Joyce, for a bird walk.
We met at the edge of the bay as the tide was out, exposing mud flats and hundreds of birds having their breakfast.
We then walked on down a path to see both inland and coastal birds. We walked right past a rather large alligator lounging in the creek bed. We would have never even noticed him if the ranger had not pointed him out, even though he was only about 5 feet away.
We saw various cormorant, anhinga, herons, pelicans, egrets, wood storks, the ever-present vultures and many more.
There were several osprey nests and we found several red-shouldered hawks willing to pose for a picture.
Unfortunately, we should have written down the names of the birds we saw as nearly all were new to us and remembering all of their names impossible. Spoonbill Pink Pelican
Looking for breakfast
Looking for breakfast
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