Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge

We decided to spend our last day at McIntosh Manor by visiting the Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge, which is just a little way down the road from the park.  We spent all day there and Kelly took lots of pictures with her super-zoom camera.

Tomorrow, we move to Jekyll Island for another 3 days!

Dueling herons, blue and white morphs

Who knew vultures went fishing/clamming?  They were absolutely comical wading in the mud and fighting over choice crustaceans.

Juvenile night heron?

Little blue heron in flight

Roosting Wood Stork

Roosting snowy egret

Cue the jaws music:

Glossy ibis:

Black crowned night heron:

2 birds and a 'gator:

Quack!

One of these birds is not like the others...

Wood stork and comical Roseate Spoonbills:

Red wing blackbird (not in the dead of night ;-)

Wood stork in flight:

White morph heron in flight:

Richard, patiently waiting for his wife to stop photographing every bird, butterfly, dragonfly, and flower in the whole #$%* meadow.

And here are more of them:

Fiddler crabs:

This little fellow ran across the road just as we were leaving the reserve:

Carolina opuntia, or "Devil's Tongue"