Showing posts with label horseshoe crab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horseshoe crab. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Ft Desoto after work


Great egret landing in the muck.


Wilson's plover watching me. There aren't too many Wilson's around. This one was by itself.


Looks like a group of skimmers and royal terns in the roped off sanctuary at the north beach.


This is the tiniest horseshoe crab I've ever seen.

When there's not a Rays baseball game tying up traffic, I try to head down to Fort Desoto to walk around after work at least once a month. There's not much traffic and it's better than driving into Tampa after work. I can get in a good hour and a half walk before it gets dark. The park is pretty busy during the day now so I think late in the day most of the birds have been scared away. The roped off areas seem to be full of birds getting ready for bed. I can usually still manage to find something interesting to take pictures of. Although, there hasn't been anything rare or unusual lately.