Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands: A Naturalist's Year on Galveston Bay 00902 people strive for an ordinary

people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable

but her resolve is unraveling with each passing day

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

Their lives will never be the same

Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands: A Naturalist's Year on Galveston Bay 00902 people strive for an ordinaryEvery 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