FoP Beach Report 3/19/2015
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March 19, 2015
Padre Island National Seashore
Friends of Padre report
Water temperature: 65 degrees F (Bob Hall Pier)
Air temp @ 0800: 64 degrees F
Fluctuated between 64 and 70 degrees F throughout the day. Heavy fog on the beach
Patchy, dense fog throughout the day
Moments of sun, coupled with hours of overcast and fog
Light, variable winds switching to SE at 10 mph
Water gets better all the way to the jetty. Sandy green to clear and green, moving South.
Driving on low tide: 10/10
Driving on hide tide: 7/10, Middle road 2wd with some 4HI in the high banks
2 coyotes on the water line at the 7
Dead dolphin at the 42
Large trees in the water and IN THE ROAD from the 15 to the 50
A couple sandbar sharks reported from Mansfield Jetty as well as sheepshead
Most camps within the first 5 miles
Few camps south
Bird notes:
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Sanderling
Black Bellied Plover
Ruddy Turnstone (7)
Willet (100’s)
Royal Tern
Grackle
Ring Billed Gull
Great Blue Heron (12)
Brown Pelican
Caspian Tern
Cormorant
Forster’s Tern
Semipalmated Plover (6)
Cattle Egret
Snowy Egret
Reddish Egret
Tricolored Heron (2)
White Ibis (flocks of 15-30 flying over 1st bar, 100’s)
Long Billed Curlew (21)
Black Tern (1)
Barn Swallow (Scattered throughout the day, headed North)
Horned Lark (19)
Northern Harrier
Sandwich Tern
Wilson’s Plover (4)
Peregrine Falcon (2)
Crested Caracara (1)
Black necked Stilt (1)
American Avocet (1)
Turkey Vulture (2)
Franklin’s Gull (4)
Least Tern (2)
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