Here we are~Morning walk Hunting Island

Howdee all,

Here we are

Hunting Island State Park, SC

We have a great campsite…

See the swampy area behind us? Good birding there.

The campground is in the trees beyond the beach..

Monday was our first morning at the campground..

We took an early morning walk..just missing sunrise.

Looking south toward the campground..

We walk north toward the inlet..

I see this silhouette of a bird on the edge of a shallow pool of water.

I thought by the way it was standing it might be a Starling…

Wrong!

Ha, perspective on size was way off..

Green Heron

The sun rises higher..

lighting up the waters..

We are check out the area to see what birds are around.

Here we go..

We saw Dunlin, Semipalmated Plover, Black-bellied Plover..Sanderling and more..

Check out the Bird list below for all the birds we saw this morning.

Lesser Scaup

It is the top of low tide…

the tide begins to slowing come in..

More birds in the distance..

Red Knot..

Snowy Egret on the edge of a saltwater pool.

A lone Willet feeds

And

prances around..

looking south..in the distance is our campground..

Beyond that the lighthouse..

Who's this>

Our first Marbled Godwit of the year, with a Semipalmated Plover

I kept walking out further and further, Jeff was concerned about the tide.. good thing he was vigilant.. ..

we looked behind us and noticed the tide was coming in rapidly..

I took no photos until we were safely on the other side of the small inlet..

Wet shoes and wet pants.. Next time we will be more careful

Safely on the campground side of the water I look up and notice..

A heart cloud!

We walked south of the campground..

The beach has changed dramatically in the past 6 years since we were here..

We used to bike the beach south past the campground…

now that part of the beach is gone..

its now a bone yard..

We were told within the past two years most of the beach in this area was carried away..

The water took over what was woodland..

We walk thru the bone yard..

To the lighthouse..

Then back thru the boneyard

Looking for birds..

Checking out the bones..

We have been out for a little over three hours..

Its time for breakfast..

I am starved…

see you later!

Birds of the Day

Hunting Island SP, Beaufort, US-SC
Mar 18, 2013 7:50 AM - 10:50 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Comments:     <br />Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.2
53 species

Lesser Scaup   
Bufflehead   
Red-breasted Merganser   
Northern Gannet   
Double-crested Cormorant   
Brown Pelican   
Great Blue Heron   
Great Egret   
Snowy Egret    
Tricolored Heron   
Green Heron   
Osprey   
Semipalmated Plover   
American Oystercatcher   
Willet   
Marbled Godwit   
Ruddy Turnstone   
Red Knot   
Sanderling   
Dunlin   
Laughing Gull   
Ring-billed Gull   
Forster's Tern   
Royal Tern   
Mourning Dove   
Belted Kingfisher   
Red-bellied Woodpecker   
Downy Woodpecker   
Northern Flicker   
Blue Jay   
American Crow   
Fish Crow   
Carolina Chickadee   
Tufted Titmouse   
Red-breasted Nuthatch   
White-breasted Nuthatch   
Brown-headed Nuthatch   
Carolina Wren    
Golden-crowned Kinglet   
Ruby-crowned Kinglet   
Eastern Bluebird   
Hermit Thrush   
American Robin   
Northern Mockingbird   
Cedar Waxwing   
Black-and-white Warbler   
Northern Parula   
Pine Warbler   
Yellow-rumped Warbler   
Yellow-throated Warbler   
White-throated Sparrow   
Northern Cardinal   
Boat-tailed Grackle