Friday, February 6, 2009

Hint

 

During the day, the Common Pauraque sleeps in leaves and rubble on the ground.

 

 

Hint

 

The Common Pauraque is a bird.

 

Here is a higher resolution picture in case you’re zooming in.

 

 

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Can you find the.

 

This is a hard one.  Can you find the Common Pauraque in this picture?

 

 

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

FW: Picture

Okay.  Here is a harder one.  Can you find the warbler in this picture?

 


From: Jon McIntyre [mailto:offshorebirding@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:49 AM
To: Steve Taylor
Subject: Picture

 

Monday, February 2, 2009

Last Week

 

Then we took the ferry north from Galveston Island to the Bolivar Peninsula.  The peninsula was an order of magnitude worse.  One house out of a hundred standing.  Rubble where the town of Crystal Beach once stood.  This is not like the damage a tornado leaves.  Hurricanes don’t hit one house and hop over another.  Every building faces the same force.  Twenty miles of devastation.  And this is the sanitized version.  They’ve been cleaning up for four months.

 

 

Last Week

 

Last week we made the drive from Brazos Bend to Galveston Island.  We knew the island wasn’t going to look like we remembered, and it didn’t.  The Hurricane has been there.  Hurricane Ike, the one that was heading for Port Aransas, then turned right and hit Houston instead.  Boats in the wrong places.  Cars and trucks where boats are supposed to be.  A fishing pier no longer connected to shore.  Galveston Island State Park in ruins, but with a sign at the entrance indicating the State’s intent to rebuild.  It was terrible.  Every house damaged to some extent.  Some beyond repair.  Some knocked down entirely.  Entire neighborhoods still unoccupied.  It was bad.

 

 

Sunday, February 1, 2009