Certain flocks trace the Pacific Coast, while others navigate by the Atlantic, the Mississippi River or the Rocky Mountains, and night-flying birds use the stars to chart their way. (via thknwco)
For nine weeks, I attended a superb naturalist training class conducted by the Denver chapter of the Audubon Society, in which bird experts employed by Audubon worked with guests from additional entities such as the Colorado Native Plant Society to explain the entire local ecosystem. We learned the names of myriad native plants and local insects that support bird species, as well as fascinating information about how and why so many flocks migrate along routes marked by geological formations.
Where were all those birds heading? Large numbers fly south in the winter by following the Rocky Mountains and other formations down to the Gulf of Mexico, which many then cross to spend the winter in the Mexican state of Yucatán. In the park itself, a small strip of beachfront had remained in private ownership, and landowners had constructed a handful of homes that functioned off the grid. A villa called Nirvana Blue stood beside the beach, while I was staying in a property called Ríaluz, owned by Colorado artist Ana María Hernando. Her home featured whitewashed walls, vivid blue doors and a wraparound deck. I fell asleep to the sound of surf and woke to birdsong.
Farther south on the peninsula, where dense high rises commandeer the ocean views, workers remove trash from beaches before the tourists wake up, so the sand looks pristine by breakfast. The full dismaying reality can be seen in unmitigated fashion in the areas where nobody hides what is happening. I picked up what I could, and eventually realized my task was not to render the beach perfectly clean, but to find a sense of satisfaction in making this spot a little less sullied for a while.
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