Pelicans at sunrise

Sunset from the dock at Hannah Banana's Sunshine Cabana

.........and to round this out, Pelicans skimming the waves

Wind surfing

Bonaparte's Gulls in winter plumage and one lone (top, left) Common Tern in winter plumage.

Many thanks to Mike of 10,000 birds for the identification!

TGIF

This is what Friday morning is looking like in Surfside, SC................

Morning to night

I'm visiting my good friends Marilyn and Paul in Surfside, South Carolina and it's heavenly here. 

The view from their balcony is amazing.  First thing this morning this woman was enjoying the sound of the waves while she walked her dog.

We went to the Prince Creek Diner for breakfast and then spent the day at Brookgreene Gardens - a wonderful combination of trees, flowers, sculptures, critters (a zoo) and birds, birds, birds.

mini white Narcissus

yellow narcissus

Carolina Wren

 Titmouse (lifer) and female Northern Cardinal.

Black-crowned Night Heron in the aviary.

Grey Fox

Northern Mockingbird singing in one of the sculpture gardens.

Diana the Huntress

We finished the day back at the condo with this sunset.