finally a sunrise..

another early morning with lots of clouds so no beach again after 5 days of no sunrises with storms all over .. a drive to the island this Monday morning I stopped along the causeway and waited this one out.. clouds today were moving from inland to the ocean.. a few birds along the marsh.. some birds at the bird-feeders right outside our kitchen window-- not for great pics when taking thru glass but pics just the same of 'our usual suspects and regulars'

before sunrise

Panorama

debris from Hurricane Isaias from 2 weeks ago

made it above the low clouds

Great Egret in the marsh

I got too close

Egrets and a Great Egret

more clouds moving thru from inland

Red Throated Hummingbird at the 'juice'

Bluejay feeding at the suet

Red Breasted Woodpecker at the suet feeder

he's taking a break

Swallowtail Butterfly on a butterfly bush/flowers

a harmless Skink

he's back on the juice

no sunrise once again..

as the weather seems to be not cooperating.. I drove over to the island with a chance of rain and clouds filling the sky as yet another lightning storm was moving slowly just offshore along the beach.. needless to say I stayed in my car.. waited a short while stopped at the lake and headed back home..   the sun popped out for most of the day.. I was notified of some new firmware to be downloaded for one of my drones so tried it out at the house.. just a new version of a panorama stitching 21 pics into one panorama pic -- just playin'.. rain started later in the early evening and continued thru the nite.. tomorrow's weather forecast-- uglee

yet another cloudy early morning..

this the 3rd day in a row without a sunrise and plenty of low clouds..  by 9am the sun was shining though.. a 15 minute downpour happened in the late afternoon-- that's because I washed my car and sprayed some weed killer around in the yard..  86* and sunny most of the day

a lone Blue Heron

Blue Heron at the Calabash River

the low clouds win out

a pretty morning.. with so many low clouds at the non-sunrise hour decided to skip the beach today.. another hot day at 87* a light shower passed thru in the late morning.. 

some Crepuscular Rays but no sunrise

a drone's eye view on our street

a late sunrise ..clouds almost won

 over to the beach at 550am.. back to 40th street and the West End this early morning..so many clouds.. a late sunrise.. another early morning of patience, patience.. nice breeze.. a sunny hot day that was forecast for a rain event late last nite.. 88*

an up up and away Sunrise

a lil' bit different this morning as I decided to head over to the East End of the island near Tubbs Inlet that separates Sunset Beach island from Ocean Isle Beach island.. Ocean Isle Beach is where Hurricane Isaias made landfall last Monday nite at 1110pm at High Tide with a Full Moon.. a lot of damage on that island with flooding also.. plenty of erosion on this East End also same-same as on the West End of the island where I usually go in the early morning`  ...just one lone fisherman was out there when I arrived on the Sunset Beach side of Tubbs Inlet.. a couple of more surf fishermen were across the Inlet on the Ocean Isle Beach side.. and one fisherman was walking in the middle of the inlet from sandbar to sandbar.. Tubbs Inlet over the past 20 or so years has filled in and is very shallow non-navigable for boats and is at times walkable across .. this morning it was low-low tide with lots of beach and essentially no peeps around so out came the Mavic Air 2 Drone for a beach-sunrise test flight.. no one to bother so it went up up and away..  was actually trying out some new updated firmware that I uploaded to the Drone last nite mainly for camera-gimbal functionality for speed of use and smoothness.. I waited until I got home to set it up though

links to 2 short 2-minute Videos taken at Sunrise with the Mavic Air 2 Drone that I posted on My You Tube page

Sunrise at Sunset Beach --Part Uno 

Sunrise at Sunset Beach --Part Deux

before sunrise at twilight

almost at sunrise

a drone-selfie

the Drone getting ready for takeoff

a look west back from up high at Sunset Beach from Tubbs Inlet

 seagulls on a sandbar

a lost feather

a crab

walking off the beach after sunrise--a look back

a lone Sandpiper along the shoreline

the dunes took a hit from the storm--erosion

and more erosion

the lone sock.. with yesterday's lost lone shoe

the sun goes into the clouds as I drive off the island