22 November 07
Oiled Bird Care Doesn't Stop For Thanksgiving
I spent much of the day down at Cordelia again today, ostensibly to give a break to my hard-working colleagues (but which ended up being more media work: the story of the day, “several dozen people give up their thanksgiving holiday to care for the birds” — never mind that most of us were either foreign or vegetarian or both and were in any case quite happy to be there).
Ron and Joe were there too (as was Lisa ); Ron got recruited to take a hapless PRBO worker to Oakland Airport right away, the hapless PRBO’er having missed the airport shuttle, while Joe cut up smelts. The birds are feeding well.
They fed us Thanksgiving dinner at lunchtime so we were feeding well too. Joe, who knows from pie, said the pumpkin pie “exceeded expectations.” Me, I liked the mushroom sauce.
But mostly I am grateful to have a chance to work with these incredible people doing incredible work against all kinds of odds. (Not to mention the chance to get so very close to these birds to sketch them.) The two gals from Tri-State Rescue and Research (Chesapeake Bay) who are here helping out with the spill got word today there’s another oil spill, this one on Long Island. They’re heading home on Saturday for that one. The weather won’t be as good there, said Rebecca…
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It was so, so, so nice to talk with you today! Hopefully, we’ll cross paths again!
I’m delighted how you’re able to do your bird drawings during this hectic stressful rehab period. You drawn some of the smiley ducks, the ruddies and the scoters.