Dauphin Island, Alabama: Walked the bird sanctuary under sunny skies, a cool wind from the Gulf, high in the middle 50s. Found one blue spiderwort in bloom, sprawling brambles of white-flowered wild blackberries, patches of black medic clover, scattered yellow wood sorrel, violet, bearded flowers on a thin-leafed rosemary-like plant (a sandhill rosemary or beach heather), a yellow-orange blooming woody plant (picture taken) all in a habitat of live oaks, sand live oaks, yaupon (with bark like crepe myrtles), magnolias (with thin flower buds), wandering greenbrier, sawtooth palmetto, basal leaves of thistles, wild lettuce a foot high, pokeweed two feet high, withered bracken new growth not yet emerging, pennywort with buds (in the Magnolia Park). Pelicans and gulls and other sea birds seen out in the water. A foot-long shark washed up on shore.