Wednesday, July 16
We took a drive over to the bayside area of the State Park, where I saw Roseate Spoonbills, dowichers (species unknown), White Ibis, Tricolored Heron, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, and Black-necked Stilt. Cool birding place!
Back at the campsite, I saw a Loggerhead Shrike on the wires over our campsite, also a Black-bellied Whistling Duck—I had no idea they could perch on wires!!! On the beach there was some sort of plover, a few Least Tern, and either Royal or Caspian Tern. Most likely Royal because the Caspian Terns should be all up north right now.
Bunch birds on beach. Sadly, no plovers.
In the afternoon we went swimming. I tried to walk down the beach with my camera in search of the plovers, but never saw them again.
Then at around 5pm (early, I know, but there’s Molly to consider) we went to Fisherman’s Wharf in Galveston. We went there last year and liked it very much and the same thing was true this time. Ed especially loved his fried fish platter. I had a fish platter with excellent clam cakes, some grilled fish, sauteed vegetables and rice. All good—except for the two bacon-wrapped, deep fried shrimp. Hideous. I ate one and gave the other one to Ed.
In the evening I again saw the frigatebirds, two of them, this time not soaring but heading toward land and off into the distance. On my sunset walk I saw a black skimmer attacking a kite that some beachgoer had anchored at the edge of the water. It was weird. It was a very lovely sunset, sadly, in the opposite direction of the water. But the pink tinge of the waves was cool. On the way back to camp, white crabs scurried along the sand and ducked into the many holes there.
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