Monday, February 8, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Marsh Boardwalk
A short walk from our "Marsh Villa" is a boardwalk through the marshes. It is a meandering pleasant path. The Heron's, Pelican's and other birds without names :) are busy doing what birds do.
After The Flood-New Villa
After a pipe broke in the wall of the Villa at midnight leaving an inch of water sloshing around, we travelled a few miles to our new "Non Ocean View Villa"... There are many birds which are lovely to watch, so that's a nice trade.Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Fearless Deer
The deer roam the Island fearlessly... they are like cows grazing... they won't even look up when you are within six feet. 
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Storm Destruction
Hours before finding these posts uprooted we saw what appeared to be a river of reeds, a few logs and some garbage floating by on the waves. We went for a walk and found this destruction not far from the Villa. The waves must have come crashing over that sea wall. On the right hand side of the picture is part of the wall which is made out of cement, beyond the wall and forty feet or so into the ocean are massive rocks placed in an attempt to keep the sea at bay (sea at bay...funny) The waves managed to take out a chunk of the golf course along with a few thousand pounds of sand and grass. The posts just tipped over without their sandy support.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Water getting choppy as storm approaches
There is a storm coming across the states carrying ice, snow and rain... it is not supposed to make it down to Fripp... but we are certainly getting some side effects.
Hunting Island State Park SC
We went for a walk on a boardwalk that led to a tiny Island (as seen in the picture) another boardwalk leading out to a spot that in warmer weather must be alive with birds... with more marshes all around.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
January, 20th 2010
The past three days have been damp, cold and foggy and the pond remains frozen. But, the birds! The birds are on their migration back. I don't know where they go or where they are going from here. When it all sugars off we will have a nice selection of common little birds, a few woodpeckers, a rarely seen bluebird, lots of hawks, an owl (rarely heard-but sounds huge)morning doves, blackbirds, and cardinals.Some of the migrating flocks have hundreds of members. The silver maples and high sycamore limbs are heavy with birds chatting loudly. Then an invisible signal, they rise up as one, swooping across the fields in great waves.
The apartment bird house on the pole in the back has had many visits from potential nesters in the last few days. One large cow bird came out of the small opening yesterday. It would be a big enough nest for her to "drop off" an egg as they commonly do.
I was checking out the birdhouse under the maple wondering if I should clean it out. I took my camera and pointed it right inside the opening to see if I could get a flash picture of the inside. Suddenly this small brown bird came flying straight out at me and off into the wilderness. Poor thing must have thought the sun had exploded.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
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