Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Inspecting The Dead

Wanting to become closer to the cerise tide destruction, my married adult woman in addition to I visited Whitney Beach this morning.  Stretching along the northwest border of Longboat Key, it is both the almost scenic stretch of sand in addition to (in my opinion) the best birding place on this barrier island.  As expected, the beach was littered alongside dead fish, eels, rays in addition to horseshoe crabs in addition to the diverseness of birds was far below normal.

Wandering amid the dead, nosotros endured the nauseating stench of rotting bounding main life.  While a distich of yellow-crowned dark herons in addition to a dozen shorebirds (black-bellied plovers in addition to ruddy turnstones) scoured the beach, they stayed clear of the victims; dark-brown pelicans in addition to large flocks of laughing gulls passed overhead or lounged far offshore.  Except for a lonely hunter alongside his metallic detector, nosotros were the solely humans on that pop beach.

Though the algal counts accept waxed in addition to waned along Florida's Southwest Coast, the cerise tide is expected to persist until a tropical tempest or cool spill weather condition invades the region.  There is problem inwards paradise and, this morning, nosotros bore witness to its wrath. 

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