Steve and Judy's Travels!

  Happy Anniversary to us.  Forty-three years.   A quiet morning on the patio.  Left work early this afternoon.  Watched dolphins at the marina park.  A drive along the beach.  It’s late enough in the year that the birds have left their winter grays behind and are in their summer plumage now.  Black Bellied Plovers have black bellies.  Red Knots actually have red on them.   Fish and chips at Snoopy’s.   Life on the beach.    

  The Gulf Coast Bird Observatory did a three day bird count within the city limits of Port Aransas last week.  Team count.  175 species.  (Judy and I got the Purple Gallinule.)  

  Okay, we got the hummingbird straightened out.   That was a terrible “one of these turtles is not like the others” email I sent last week.  I had one difference in mind; the fact that one of the turtles is made out of cement, but looking at the picture again, every turtle is different in some way.  The two in the back are Red Eared Sliders but their shells look different.  The smaller turtle is a different brand entirely, but we don’t know what it is.  The closest one; the dry one; he’s still made out of cement.  He doesn’t move around as much as the rest of them do.  I thought it was cool that one of the turtles pulled up next to the cement turtle and posed just like him.    

  We found all these little buff bellied hummingbird parts on the ground so we reassembled them into a bird and stuck him back in the tree.  How’d we do?    

  The black terns are back in town.