I took so many photos at Ocean Shores and stopped to have Sushi that we ended up being late getting to Bottle Beach on the other side of the harbor. Ideally, I should have been there at least an hour before high tide, but it was almost a full tide when I arrived. Despite that, we were greeted at the beach by the same birds we had seen at Ocean Shores, a Semipalmated Plover and a Western Sandpiper.
We saw a lot more of those. In fact the only shore birds we saw at Bottle Beach that we hadn’t seen at Ocean Shores were Dunlin.
My favorite moment at Bottle Beach actually came when most of the birds had stopped feeding and were resting, huddled in along line behind the larger Dunlin to get out of the wind.
I was disappointed with myself that I had miscalculated the high tide, but it was hard to be too disappointed when we ended the day with some nice shots of the Brown Pelicans
flying overhead on the Westport Jetty.
Of course, I also consoled myself with ten dollars of chocolates from the candy store in Westport to eat on the way home. Sushi should always be followed by chocolates.