Pelican Convention

We spent last night at Folly Beach, south of Charleston (the link has an amusing map). This morning we walked the full length of the south end of the beach, at low tide. It's a beautiful, broad, sandy beach; most birds were flying by, at some distance. Before lunch we walked out to the end of the "Fishing Pier". In the afternoon we drove north, to a view of Morris island Light, a historic lighthouse standing south of the entrance to Charleston harbor. On the way we stopped to bird at a group of long piers in a residential area; this image shows the far end of one of the piers, which has been taken over by Brown Pelicans.  The piers extend NNW from the spot on the map.