Jekyll Island, Georgia: Clear and mild, steady light wind, highs in the middle 70s, cirrus clouds in the afternoon.Woke to red-bellied woodpeckers and cardinals – more red-bellies than I’ve ever heard. Walked the North Beach and the marsh paths this afternoon, found a white or pale yellow star grass, a violet with divided leaves (perhaps a palmate violet a coast violet , a birdfoot violet or a three-lobed violet), took photos of a shrub with red berries and the shrub with white four-petaled flower clusters. A plant with six leaves attached to woody, opposite stems, the whole plant maybe two to three feet tall, each with one or two dried flower heads – some kind of coastal wetland aster or composite – grew all along the waterway bike path. Two monarch butterflies seen along that waterway. A blue spiderwort bloomed by the bath house. As the tide went out, thousands and thousands of pinkish gray slugs or fat, short worms were left lying on the sand, apparently unappealing to the birds. We watched two pelicans fly up and down the sound, dropping occasionally into the waves for fish. Cormorants disappeared under the water, reappeared far from where they went down.