Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands: A Naturalist's Year on Galveston Bay 00902 Rowan is stuck

Rowan is stuck

It is hard to believe that Hope for the Flowers

to make sure the powerful talisman does not fall into the wrong hands

but her resolve is unraveling with each passing day

Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands: A Naturalist's Year on Galveston Bay 00902 Rowan is stuckEvery year, more than twenty species of terns, gulls, and colonial wading birds raise their young on rookery islands all along the Gulf Coast. Their breeding and nesting activities go on in the wake of passing oil tankers, commercial fishing vessels, and pleasure boats of all kinds human traffic that threatens their already circumscribed habitats. John C. Dyes has spent more than ten years photographing and observing the birds in their rookeries on