Father's Day

 

We drove to the National Seashore on Padre Island for a walk on the beach.  The sand is pretty rough, so we didn’t drive far.

 

 

We went past the 4 wheel drive sign, but only a few miles.  Then we just stopped and sat with the birds and water.

 

Got a few seaside birds:

Magnificent Frigatebird

Brown Pelican

Great Blue Heron

Crested Caracara

Black-bellied Plover

Willet

Marbled Godwit

Ruddy Turnstone

Sanderling

Laughing Gull

Least Tern

Gull-billed Tern

Caspian Tern

Black Tern

Common Tern

Forster’s Tern

Royal Tern

Sandwich Tern

Black Skimmer

 

8 terns and a skimmer!

 

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Dinner at Snoopy’s and Scoopy’s.

 

Nice calls and notes from the kids.  We didn’t spend the day with them, but we thought about them and they thought about us.

 

A good day.

 

Happy Father’s Day to all.