Huntington Beach

The vacation in South Carolina was coming to an end when we walked around Huntington Beach State Park in late April. It was the last day before we all headed for home. The park has a beach (obvious from its name) but also includes a boardwalk over the swamp and pine woods. Each one of the areas has something to offer.

It was too cool to wiggle our toes in the water but we picked up shells and I enjoyed the seaweed that was drying out on the beach. There were browns and reds and green. I liked this bit of green on the sand.

From the boardwalk we saw many birds. The egrets were the most common and I’ve posted a lot about them recently so I’ll include two different ones in this post. The robust looking Double Crested Cormorant was surveying the swamp from a piling.

The green heron was on the boardwalk and the supports for it. Green herons are shape shifters. The neck contracts and expands - changing the bird’s look dramatically.

In the woods, we heard a woodpecker and, after some searching, found it working on a dead pine tree. It is a red-bellied woodpecker.There must have been many insects in the tree because it was focused on a relatively small area of the tree for quite some time - allowing for picture taking.