Water Birding

Yesterday I found myself kayaking across 3 mile harbor to gather information for my senior project. As I was paddling through +20mph winds towards the series of salt marshes I noticed a flock of ducks. To far away to noticed a paddled closer to see the shiny green head, which was a dead give away that these water fowl were indeed mallards. When I finally got to the salt marshes I noticed a variety of birds sheltering from the winds on the small beach on the marsh I could identify most of these birds as:

Double Crested Cormorant

White Egret

Great Blue Heron

Laughing Gull

Ringed-bill Gull

Black Skimmer

Despite being so windy, and almost falling out of my kayak I had a great time birding and gathering information for my SP.