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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

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Houston Audubon instituted a ‘no hunting’ policy and by July 1995, there were 50 heron nests on the island, protected from mammalian predators by the large alligators in the waterways. If I lived in High Island, I would go to the Rookery every evening to try to capture the essence of its chaotic wonderfulness.

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