We bought this nature guide at the Flagler Beach History Museum, and it has enabled us to identify so many birds! And seashells! I found a Scotch Bonnet yesterday!

I’ll keep updating this post until we leave Flagler. Birds id’d so far: Roseate spoonbill, brown pelican, black vulture, double breasted cormorant, boat-tailed grackle, white pelican, wood stork, black skimmer, bald eagle, laughing gull, ring-billed gull, Bonaparte’s gull, royal tern, yellow-rumped warbler, great egret, snowy egret, forster’s tern, great black-backed gull, Red shoulder hawk, great blue heron, tricolor heron, white ibis, sanderling, western willet, black bellied plover, osprey, anhinga, belted kingfisher, little blue heron, great horned owl & yellow-crowned night heron!

Black bellied plovers are medium-sized shorebird with short, stout bill. In breeding season, shows striking black face and belly with bold black-and-white checkering on upperparts; note clean white undertail. In nonbreeding season, more uniformly drab gray with whitish belly.

Similar in size & appearance to the little blue but with a white belly!