Ocean Beach- San Francisco

One afternoon we took the N-judah down to Ocean Beach for coffee and a walk. To our surprise, there were tons of birds roosting on the beach in  huge flocks.

 I think we were lucky to see so many beautiful terns on their beak. I couldn't decide whether these are Elegant or Caspian terns at first, but then after looking it up in my trusty birding books it seems that the Caspian terns shouldn't be as far north as San Francisco. Anyway there were hundreds of them sitting and squawking up a ruckus.

Some seriously crazy hair-dos going on here

 They had some sandpiper friends (Marbled Godwits)

 

scooping up snails

slurp, slurp

There were huge flocks of gulls, and so many balls of fluff.

Anyway it was a beautiful and chilly day in San Francisco!