In Colorado

Heat builds during the day, moisture collects, and thunderstorms blow up in the afternoon. Here on the gulf, there is always plenty of heat and moisture around. Thunderstorms can happen at any time. A giant one happened this morning. Here is what the satellite image looked like just after the weather band passed over us from the west and headed offshore.


An inch and a half of rain. It happened pretty fast and we had nice weather the rest of the day.

Meanwhile, on the beach:

Red Knot.


Spotted Eagle Ray.


He was not having a good day.

We finished up with a Life Bird at the Birding Center. Black Rail. We weren’t even looking for a Black Rail, but Jon called and told us it was there. We didn’t actually see it. You don’t get to see Black Rails. You just get to hear them. If you actually got to see one, that would be like an Uber-bird.

We heard several of them.