Another sunrise at Fort Desoto Park in late April.
As I was leaving the East Beach area after taking a few sunrise pictures I passed two osprey. Both had big fish for breakfast.
A great crested flycatcher was sitting up high watching the sun come up.
When I got out to North Beach I saw a reddish egret right away. He was busy fishing for his breakfast in a tidal pool.
I found another one farther up the beach but this one was right into the sun.
A young black bellied plover stands in front of the sleeping red knots.
Red knots are migrating birds and only stop over for a short time to refuel on their way back and forth between their breeding grounds in the northern most part of the continent to the far tip of South America. This trip I was able to catch many of them in their reddish orange breeding colors.
A red knot surrounded by 3 black bellied plovers, two were just starting to get their black bellies for the summer breeding season.
A cute little dunlin was poking around in the wet sand for a snack.
A young herring gull, strutting on the beach with those pink legs, was going to find out that the piece of seaweed was not a good snack.
A big boat passing by the pier.
A crown conch in the shallow edge of the water at low tide.
The dolphins were swimming around the fishing pier trying to steal fish from the fishermen.
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