Our day in Crystal River started out cloudy but ended nice and sunny and quite warm. We spent the morning birding the Fort Island State Park beach and trail (by the boat launches). Lots of migratory birds resting on the gulf beach before the beach became populated with swimmers and sun worshipers. The weather was warm with a brisk north-west wind that pushed the morning clouds away. The less windy sable palm hammock held the songbirds and the beaches were populated with migratory gulls, terns, and shorebirds.
Here's a sampling of what we saw:
Black Skimmer
American Oystercatcher
Royal Tern
Laughing Gull
Dunlin
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Willet
Double-crested Cormorant
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
Red-shouldered Hawk (light Florida morph)
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