Friends of Padre Beach Report 3/16/2017

By Tyler Thorsen

Friends of Padre Beach Report 3/16/2017

Via Jennifer Merchant

 

Took a trip down PINS and the weather was beautiful.  On the way down there we noticed the water was brown and had plenty of sargassum in the water and on the shore.  Driving was good with a few questionable spots.  Once we got passed the 40 mile marker the water was trout green and blue.  Water clarity down south was a 9, with little seaweed.  There is still a bit of a washout at the 58 mile marker.  Waves were 3-4ft.  Tide was only coming close to the dunes around a couple spots.  Winds were about 15mph.  Not too many people down there for Spring Break.  We caught bullsharks, blacktip sharks, redfish and whiting.  Seen people catching bonnetheads, bluefish, and spanish mackerel.  Birds diving in the third gut.  Phytoplankton washed in Tuesday night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Birds Seen:

 

 

Caracara

 

 

Ring billed gull

 

 

Rudy turnstone

 

 

White tailed hawk

 

 

Curlew

 

 

Sanderling

 

 

Willet

 

 

Brown pelican

 

 

Double crested cormorant

 

 

Least tern

 

 

Royal tern

 

 

Sandwich tern

 

 

Herring gull

 

 

Laughing gull

 

 

Caspian tern

 

 

Blue heron

 

 



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