OUR DUCKS ARE BACK

After nearly five years, this week we have seen six ducks in a family we hope will stay with us for a while. One of our neighbors used to feed a whole community of ducks prior to Hurricane IKE, but the storm decimated our ducks, our turtles and our nutria. We are cheering for the ducks and the turtles - not so much, the nutria even though they did clean up the weeds in the bayous.

Your mission, if you want to take it on: identify the type of duck. I have my bird book out and think they could be Mexican, Black or Mottled ducks - unless they are all female mallards...

Almost all the homes you see here are new.

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See the blue feathers? So beautiful.

The Tankers, the Ferries and the Shrimp Boats



Ferry passengers love a close look at big ships.

Someone must be feeding the birds.

 It is almost like a dance!



The end of a long day of shrimping.

This was a particularly busy day for traffic on the Gulf - going into Galveston Bay. Riding on the ferry is a place to see everything from dolphins playing in front of the boat to a behemoth cruise ship lumbering out of the harbor. At times, the ferry must turn out of the way for crossing traffic.

Funny, I've never seen a tanker get out of the way of a ferry...

The ferries cross the shipping lane - come what may.

This shrimp boat is going out for another run.



But it seems this tanker is in the way...

 

Oh, I guess not. The way is clear now.

And the ferries continue their back-and-forth journeys.