A Bird's-Eye View . . .

Who doesn't love wading in the salty water, watching the waves roll in . . . I'm pretty sure this was an immature reddish egret .

An osprey discovered the perch I've also seen a bald eagle atop in weeks past . . . on the Intracoastal side of Matanzas Inlet . . .

. . . It was a dark and stormy morning . . .

Not many seashell finds, but this scallop was the most strongly patterned one I've found on this particular beach.

Seeing Red

It wasn't my best couple hours of beach therapy this morning, but nice all the same, and full of reds . . .

. . . Like the sunrise . . . in an otherwise dark horizon . . . it didn't seem this sinister in real life!

I found another calico scallop with an acorn barnacle attached . . .

On the Intracoastal Waterway side, this reddish egret flew in and landed out in the shallows . . . This is the first reddish egret I've seen since living in NE Florida 3 years . . . too bad I didn't have my SLR camera with me . . .

Another shapely piece of a whelk shell . . . even though I'd prefer to find a whole whelk, the curly pieces definitely have their own unique beauty.