It was another overcast day, with occasional spits of rain. We left Skye behind today so she could recover from yesterday, and took advantage of that to walk a long way up beach.
This should tell you about how much wind we had
For the first time in a long time, we saw some of the Bald Eagles. This one made an attempt to grab a fish on this pass near the surface, but if he/she got a fish, it was an awfully small one. It probably went off to look for an Osprey to steal one from.
I think I saw the largest number of Great Blue Herons in one area that I've ever seen. In addition to this group of four, there were three more to the left, and at least two on shore further up. There must be a lot of small fish in that shallow water to attract them all.
Georgia got a little behind me on both the walk and the "tooth count"
But when we got together again, she had these three, which got her up to even, and certainly the best tooth of the day, the really fine, and interestingly mottled
Cosmopolitodis lower jaw tooth (extinct giant mako/white shark). All told we had 38 teeth today, with a three decent size mako types.
There were great numbers of butterflies out puddling on the beach, the vast majority of which were male Eastern Tiger Swallowtails. However, mixed in were a few
Spicebush Swallowtails, like this male.
Even the rain didn't seem to send them running for shelter.
One of the neighborhood kids, Mat, catching fish (probably White Perch and/or Spot) off the remains of the south jetty at Flag Harbor.
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