Thursday, October 6   I love watching birds at the beach. In
Isle of Palms, there are always seagulls, of course, the little
sand pipers that scurry along the sand, never standing still
long enough for me to capture a close up, and my favorite, the
pelicans.  This year, we hardly saw any pelicans which seemed
rather strange to me as usually there are lots of them, swooping
down into the ocean to catch fish. So every time I did see one,
I got super excited. Pelicans!  One of the most exciting bird
sightings though, was not a marine bird, but a red tailed hawk
that settled in on the roof of the house next door.  There were
actually two of them, soaring high in the sky and then sitting
perched on the roof, looking out toward the ocean.  We stood on
the second floor balcony for a long time, just watching them.
Hawks are such majestic creatures.  1 comment:    1. I love Red
Tailed Hawks. The calls they make sends shivers up my spine.
They're a pretty common thing up in Northern BC, where I grew
up, but I still sto