Boy is this a day for the birds!

Wednesday December 4, 2013
Sebastian Inlet State Park
Melbourne Beach, Florida

 

 

Wood storks must not be endangered anymore.

 

Or at least they aren’t endangered here.   When I head out for a morning walk to both beaches, the first thing I see is wood storks on the roof of the bathhouse.  Wood storks on a bath house?  Really?? There is quite a large group hanging around the banks of the Sebastian Inlet. 

 

 

 

What a face!

 

Today David is going over to the town of Sebastian on the mainland to get his blood work done.  He’s also going to the grocery store by himself which he loves since he can take all the time he wants and look at every thing.  

 

I’m going walking.

 

Sebastian Inlet State Park is located on both sides of the inlet.  The bridge across the inlet on A1A connects the two so there is fishing on both sides of the inlet and swimming in the ocean also on both sides.

I start out walking along the inlet on this side.  I’m going at a pretty fast clip but I’ve brought my camera.  Big mistake.

First these two pose for me and I have to stop. The large one is the Great Egret and the smaller the Snowy Egret

 

 

The Snowy Egret has black legs and golden slippers to match his black bill and golden eye area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With this little Blue Heron it’s the tail feathers and eye/bill area which match.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

walking further on down to the pier on this side of the inlet, I find the waves are crashing.  LOVE that sound!!

 

 

 

In one direction I  look back at the inlet by which the campground is located.  The shore in the picture is in the area across the inlet from the campground.

 

 

 

In the opposite direction I look out at the ocean between the two piers.

Everything looks pretty calm in both directions.

 

 

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the top of a Pelican’s head so clearly before.

 

A bridge crosses from one side of the inlet to the other.  Walking across it I look down and see the top of a pelican’s head.

 

 

 

The fishing crew is all down there as the high tide,  presumably filled with fish, rushes into the inlet. 

   

 

 

 

 

 

Boy there are a lot of fishermen on this bridge.

 

Eventually I stop looking down at the water and look back up at the bridge.  I’m walking on over to the other side of the park when I see this osprey.  I guess he is fishing from the top of the bridge.   He pays me no mind at all when I eventually walk by.  But not before taking way too many pictures.

 

   

 

 

What a gorgeous day at the beach it is.

When I arrive at the beach, I see the RED caution flag and the PURPLE dangerous sea life flag are out but the wind isn’t blowing at all and the ocean is pretty placid as oceans go.   Guess someone isn’t checking things daily now that “the season” is over.

 

 

 

What a beautiful day for strolling down the beach.  High today is 78 degrees.  What a wonderful change from just a few days ago.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

On my way to walk back across the bridge, I check out the lagoon adjacent to the inlet.  

Not sure I’ve ever seen so many birds here. 

 

White Pelicans   

 

Brown Pelicans, Royal Terns and others 

 

Cormorants and Pelicans by the dozens

 

By the end of this day I’ve seen so many birds, I’m beginning to feel like the Bird Lady of Blogland.  If I only knew as much about the birds as she does.

 

Sunrises in the morning, beach hours in the afternoon, sunsets in the evening and birds everywhere all day long.
I’m going to have great days at Sebastian Inlet.