2008-03-08
Padre Island National Seashore
It was going to be a nice day today though a bit on the chilly side .... high of 69F (it's all relative), so we decided to head to Padre Island National Seashore. First we checked out the birding areas to see who was around .... pretty quite though we did find some shore birds in one of the pond. Next we drove out onto the beach, parked and went for a walk. Zaph wanted to walked the length of the entire beach but we decided that walking more than 60 miles was not a practical thing to attempt. We compromised and walked a couple of miles.
In Texas the beach is considered a road, thus vehicles are allowed to drive on it. Today the "beach road" was particularly busy as it was "beach clean up day". Volunteers and their vehicles drove down the beach looking for and picking up the garbage that washes ashore from the gulf. And there appears to be a lot of garbage as we saw many trucks and trailers filled with bags of it.
Several types of gull`s heads turn black during breeding season, I'm going to guess that this is a Bonaparte's Gull because of the black beak.
Great Blue Herons love the seashore, you'll usually find one near when someone is fishing.
A starfish.
Windsurfers in the protected waters of the Laguna Madre
In Texas the beach is considered a road, thus vehicles are allowed to drive on it. Today the "beach road" was particularly busy as it was "beach clean up day". Volunteers and their vehicles drove down the beach looking for and picking up the garbage that washes ashore from the gulf. And there appears to be a lot of garbage as we saw many trucks and trailers filled with bags of it.
Several types of gull`s heads turn black during breeding season, I'm going to guess that this is a Bonaparte's Gull because of the black beak.
Great Blue Herons love the seashore, you'll usually find one near when someone is fishing.
A starfish.
Windsurfers in the protected waters of the Laguna Madre
# posted by The Agnew Family @ 9:50 PM 
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