Tales from Turtle and Hawk: Merry Christmas from Midway

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Merry Christmas from Midway

We hit the ground counting albatross nests here on Sand and Eastern Islands. Hundreds of thousands of albatross nests to be counted. More on the importance if the data later.

We wanted to share a few photos.

A pair of nesting Brown Boobies amongst the albatross. They were involved in interesting mating behavior.

A view of the sunrise as we were preparing to head to Eastern Island for the day.

The stars of the show - the albatross;)

Merry & Happy Holidays🎅

Turtle & Hawk

1 comment:

DocCandyDecember 27, 2013 at 7:06 PM
Merry Christmas and happy new year. What a fun adventure you guys are on! Pat just sent me the link so I've been catching up on the blog. Great work, and thanks for sharing!
--Candy
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We retired early from our careers as energy engineers and headed out to volunteer at wildlife refuges around the country~ following our passions. This blog is for friends and family that might be interested in our adventures. How did we get here? We both grew up loving the out of doors. In the past few years we fell in love with the world of birds ~ they provide an insight and connection with the natural world that had been missing. Last winter we participated in nest count for Albatross on Midway Atoll (a National Wildlife Refuge) for U.S Fish and Wildlife. It changed our life- we knew that we wanted to go out and volunteer at the many National Wildlife Areas that need help. So we went about researching the ways to do that and came up with the plan to get a RV to live in on the road. And here we are........ enjoy the tales of our upcoming adventures :)