Birds on the Outer Banks

A quiet day at home catching up with chores and so here are a few more of David's pictures from the Outer Banks.

On our second evening we were walking on the beach at sunset.   Although the real colour was in the sky over the inland water, some colour was reflected in the sky over the beach, pier and sea.

There were a number of shorebirds that we watched each day and tried to identify.  Since arriving home and consulting our book, this bird appears to be a Willet, rather than a Sandpiper as we had thought.

The little bird below,  which spent much energy running into the very shallow water to find morsels of food on the incoming waves, then running away again, reminded us of the Turnstones that we have seen in Padstow and St Ives.  The book suggests that it is a Sanderling.

This bird, which we saw in a car park at the Bonner Bridge, remains a mystery.

We wanted it to be a road-runner, but we are not sure that it is..

The Brown Pelicans, sometimes in quite large flocks, were the most fascinating to watch.