Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Birds

400! We made it to four hundred birds. Short-eared owls on the access road between the highway and the beach at dusk. They like to hang around in the dunes during the day. Gull-billed tern giving us a low altitude, low speed flyby, and least bittern. We went to the marsh and watched and watched until Judy spotted it. Secretive little guy. Got a ten second look. Least bittern! Number 400.

Ten seconds wasn't enough to get a picture. Here he is from the internet.