Skillern, McFaddin, Sea Rim SP and Bolivar

Finally have a day off after working 4 days straight at the Visitor Center, time for some serious birding...

The refuge has just acquired almost 2000 acres on the peninsula, some of it beachfront.

Semipalmated and Piping Plover sharing the same stretch of sargasm, nice comparison of colors. 

Brown Pelican, Laughing Gull

Don't know how Great Blue Heron can perch on these skinny little wires. 

Reddish Egret and Oyster Catcher at Rollover Pass. 

Snowy Egret on Yacht Basin Road. 

Yellow-crowned Night Heron 

Belted Kingfisher

Clapper Rail. 

Dowitcher, are those bills long or short?

At Sea Rim SP, 

Crested Caracara, what an elegant character. 

Black-necked Stilt, black and white beauty

Some signs seem totally unnecessary. 

Skillern TRact, Anahuac NWR

Mustard Family something

Young gator is the gate guard. 

We finished our tour with a short stop at McFadden Beach, south of High Island. 

Hurricane Carla caused major damage in 1961, another in 1989 finished the job

Ike in 2008 completed the destruction by eroding most of the remaining beach.