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A Snowflake’s Chance

10,000 Birds

They shelter and shade, feed and bind. They have only a brief window to find the right spot to send down roots – a spot with the combination of moisture, sunlight, and fine silty soil they need. Humans have not helped. The are strong, they are important. Despite this, they are in some ways quite fragile.

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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

10,000 Birds

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. I imagined walking right up to them. They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. American Avocets.

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