The bay is alive and shimmering with shore birds, most especially brown pelicans.  Morning and evening I see them fishing, roosting on piers and gliding past the house and shore.  This morning a flock of them were feeding on a school of bait fish very close in to shore, right next to my house.

Each evening they migrate from north to south along the shore.  From late afternoon until dusk they glide by in ones, twos or groups of a dozen or more.  I don’t know where they go, but in those few hours hundreds must pass by.  Most of them fly near our houses, just above the shore; we believe the air currents must be best there.  I shot this not an hour ago: