this post is for the birds

This bird was named after it's most distinguishing physical characteristic.....it's brown eyes. So as you probably guessed this is a Brown Eyed Gulf Coast Sand Grubber.

The sun finally came out today, I haven't seen it for a while. But it was still too cold and windy to go down to the beach this morning to take pictures.

I did a little preparation for leaving this coming Sunday. I brought in the bedroom slide, which doesn't need to be extended for me to enjoy my life. There's some drawers that I can't get to when the slide is in but there's nothing that's important in them, sometimes I will stay someplace for a week without ever putting the slide out. It frees up a little space when it's out but its not space I need for anything other than getting to the drawers which I don't open very often.

I put away all the things that I leave sitting on the counters when I'm staying someplace for a while. It's convenient when I'm living someplace to have stuff sitting on the counters but its not necessary so I put things away while I'm thinking about it.

I swept the floor, and considered vacuuming, but haven't done it yet. There's an amazing amount of sand everywhere especially considering that I have an outside doormat that I wipe my shoes on.  I also have two of the Arctic Fox's door steps covered in AstroTurf that I also wipe my shoes on, and I have a doormat just inside the door. But even after all that there's still enough sand in here to have my own beach wherever I go.

The campsites here aren't full hookups, there's just water and electric. So tomorrow I'll hook up to the Arctic Fox, drag it over to the dump station and empty the tanks so I don't have to do that Sunday morning before I leave. I'm planning on leaving as early as I can to avoid whatever traffic there may be on a Sunday morning because I still get chills thinking about the heavy traffic and endless road construction nightmare I endured towing the Arctic Fox through Corpus Christie to get to Padre island.

                              theboondork

This bird fools a lot of people, tourists thinks it's a Pelican but bird experts such as myself immediately recognize it as a Warm Water Gulf Coast Penguin. This species of Penguin hates cold water so using bits of seaweed and pieces of oyster shell it disguises itself to look like a Pelican so it can stay on the Gulf coast, but like any other Penguin this trickster can't fly.

This Lesser Small Footed Beach Hopper is stuck in the sand as they usually are. Since they have tiny little feet they immediately sink into the sand, just like your car tires do, and in less a larger bird comes along and pulls them out they become the main food source for the Warm Water Gulf Coast Penguin which can't fly or run very fast and depends on its food to be stuck in the sand.

Being a renowned expert in bird behavior I instantly recognized this all-too-familiar situation. The large bird, which is a duck or a chicken or something, is being surrounded by a gang of small birds known as Robins. And there called Robins because they wear black masks and rob other birds. These situations can get fairly ugly, so I left the area before the feathers flew.

The extremely rare, endangered, and stupid, Feather Headed Tide Croaker, lays its eggs on the outgoing tide where they float out to sea and are immediately eaten by the Giant Kraken, apparently there very nutritious. Since a Feather Headed Tide Croaker's eggs have never been known to last long enough to hatch, in order to save the species, efforts are being made to breed this bird with anything smarter than dirt.