Taking a Breather ...

OAFS Photo

I know some of you read my scribblings, but yesterday's outing was weak, less than 200 hits. Which made me long for that place above.

I'm not getting the return on my investment in the time it takes to write this stuff, so today was a "Why bother?" kind of day.

Sigh ...

Those posts out in the water often had birds perched thereupon. The last couple of years I could have sworn that they were cormorants. So I just assumed that this year was the same.

Nope.

OAFS Photo

This year I was surprised to note that the posts held pelicans, didn't realize that until I saw one go fishing. Those rather large mouths are hard to mistake.

Apparently brown pelicans head to the Chesapeake in the summer to breed. Perhaps we visited too early in June to see them the first two years. This year, coming as we did on the last full week in June, we saw pelicans.

We also saw raptors, two of the F-22 variety and one of the feathered variety, an osprey (the bird, not the aircraft). Also saw seahawks, er, I mean Seahawks, the MH-60 variety.

Saw lots of terns but no seagulls, something I've noticed before when visiting Virginia's shores. I'd research that but ...

Maybe another day.

Not now.

Bis gleich ...