Getting Outside Saturday: Southern Louisiana Edition

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We have made our way down to Venice in southern Louisiana. Yesterday hooked up with Dave Muth for a Christmas bird count. Amazing amount of birds, several of which Hones and I had never seen before.  Spectacular abundance in the shadow of the oil plants, right off of Halliburton Road. In this place the future seems to be fighting it out. A fragile spit of land, destined to be underwater by the end of the century, full of wildlife and beauty (this morning we watched an otter slink across the road), while also the virtual front lines of our relentless attempts to extract fuel out of earth and sea.  (All photos by Mark Honerkamp.)

Same scene with refinery fire, not sunrise.

Pelicans hanging.

Avocet, Stilt, Dowitcher

Ibises

Writin’

King Rail.

Fog on the Mississippi.

Halliburton (misspelled).