Friends of Padre Beach Report 12/2/2017
By Tyler Thorsen
Friends of Padre Beach Report
via Aaron Baxter
12/02/2017
Padre Island National Seashore
Got on the beach around 0600 and made my way to the 18.5. I was only down for a day trip this time. Driving was excellent at low tide and not too bad at high tide. No 4x4 required to the 18.5. Lots of folks on the beach in the teens and near the blacktop. Water was green/clear. Dead grass/weed in the guts that would eventually be stirred up as the wind increased throughout the day. Winds started calm and built to 10 mph by the time I left the beach at 1530. Fish caught included redfish, whiting, hardheads, small sharks, and pompano.
Birds included:
Great blue heron
Laughing gull
Herring gull
Ring billed gull
Least tern
Royal Tern
Caspian Tern
Ruddy turnstone
Sanderling
Black Bellied plover
Willet
Brown pelican
Cormorant
Ducks flying low and fast off the third bar
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