With the temperatures at home showing an unexpectedly warm 55 F and sunny skies, we made time to get to the beach. It was colder at the beach, somewhere in the 40, but the light south west breeze kept it pretty tolerable. There's still some ice lining the shore, but it's pretty sandy now, and not likely to survive much longer.
There was a pretty strange mirage out on the Bay. Looking out towards James Island, we see what I think is the stretched and inverted island itself below, and then an inverted reflection of the land behind the island (much wider) above that.
We found 12 teeth, none of any note, plus this tiny, but complete Bat Ray mouth plate, well polished by the sand. I also found a chipped piece of chert, which I think is either part of a broken arrowhead or maybe a flake from the production. It's not a type of rock found here (we don't have many, in fact, mostly the brown "ironstone" that forms in swamps") so it had to be brought in somehow.
Just another shot showing the ridge of ice pushed up on shore by the waves, and the melting pancake ice.
In addition to the usual Buffleheads, we have a small flock of Scaup (probably a
Lesser Scaup), the three to the right, and a
Common Merganser).
The majority of Flag Harbor is covered with ice, only the entrance is open. Again, with temperatures where they are, that won't last long.
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