Monday, January 19, 2026

Winter Visitors

Coastal Carolina seabirds are known winter visitors at Jordan Lake NC and often congregate on leeward shorelines. While most of their opportunistic, omnivore brethren are in pursuit of food, a small flock of Ring-billed Gulls enjoy a fleeting respite in sheltered shallows on an exposed tip of sandy lakebed—where the Seaforth Peninsula slides into drought-stricken lake waters. Weather forecasters call for a meager reprieve with rain, then snow followed by bone-chilling cold..


© Ilija Lukić 2026


Winter Visitors
Ring-billed Gulls at exposed lakebed on Jordan Lake NC

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