This is what happens on sunny days. The juveniles and adults take the shade and all the chicks just roast in the sun. A few sneak in because the birds are a lot more tolerant of each other when it's hot.
The chicks give themselves shade too. They balance on their legs, lift their feet off the ground, and keep their feet in the shade. Their feet have a lot of blood vessels so they like to keep them off of the warm ground where the breeze can cool them off.
Here's a baby red-tailed tropic bird taking a nap.
And a pair of white terns on a stick.
Here was a chick in my yard yesterday drinking the water that was coming off of the roof.
The sooty terns are back on Eastern Island. They are really loud.
Here is the "Before" picture of the little ironwoods at turtle beach.
This is "After". They weren't that big, which is why we got them now.
Here are two of the spinner dolphins jumping around.
Here's one of the green sea turtles next to the pier.
This albatross is just about scraping the sand on the beach. It would have been nice if it was sunny!
This chick is getting wing feathers and belly feathers.
They sometimes look like they want to get flying, but it will be a while.
This is the new little island.
A red-footed booby on Eastern Island.
This was the view from the cargo pier this afternoon.
This is a picture from Eastern Island yesterday. It is a male Great Frigatebird.
Here's a last shot of the Pacific Grace. It's a beautiful ship.
This is the Pacific Grace pulling in yesterday.
Matt is giving the orientation before people start wandering about.
This is Brent clearing around the pillbox on Eastern Island. I got to be the one to crawl in the hole and shovel it out. It's really not so bad, if you don't mind a bug or two and the spiny seeds from the tribulus plants.
See the tiny white tern chick at the bottom of the picture. This is in front of Barry's house. Usually they will be on something other than the ground such as fences, branches, stumps, air conditioners, window ledges, wheelbarrows, etc. This area is near his steps so it's a little raised from the yard.
It was probably less than a day old and if you have a 15" monitor, it is about life size (smaller than a golf ball).
He kind of looks like he's starting to get annoyed with the papparazzi.
Dasha and I were putting this little albatross out of Greg's backyard all the time. It kept on getting back in and the parents couldn't feed it. It looked like it was too big for the holes, but I found out otherwise.
Now we have blocked all the holes so it stays out where it can get fed.
The Thai guys made a few sand sculptures.
We even had a parade! It went from the Chugach office, past my house, and up to Capt. Brooks'.
Kristin and Dana are "Miss Songkran".
The soaking begins right after pouring water on the Buddha and pouring water on the elder's hands.
Here are the bike riders about to start in front of the Bravo Barracks.
Aun is crossing the finish line with JR passing the gooney chick in the background. We had to dodge the chicks over most of the course. If we waited another month, we would have had thousands in the roads instead of only a bunch.
The Fish & Wildlife crew. Cindy, Brent, Kristin, Matt, Murray, Me, John (with his marine debris #1 medal), Barry, and Dana.
Here is the young pup and the mother. The mother only has one eye after a shark got her a couple years ago. The other pup is in the water just out of the picture, I'm sure it would have liked to play with this pup, but it swam off when the mother went in. The mothers will chase off other pups and even bite them to keep them away. 
Cindy found a dessicated triggerfish, and here's Dana holding it for Brent's picture.
I'm not sure what kind of triggerfish this is since it has no color left, but its teeth are still white and sharp.
This was a view of part of Radar Hill back in July.
This is the view now. It's a different spot but it's a nice big clear area now. We probably won't be taking any of the trees down that you can see in the background because they are too big and it would be too much trouble.
Here are the albatrosses over at the parade field. Sorry for the bad lighting, but you can tell there are a lot of birds.
A bird came over and started biting Dasha's sweatshirt. They do that a lot when you just sit in one spot for a while. Some of them like to untie shoelaces too if you stand in one place too long.
Here are a few of the things we found on the beach today.
A Laysan albatross is flying around North Beach. That's an old fuel tank in the background.
Here's a Black-footed albatross too. The light wasn't so good today since it was cloudy, but it's still cool to see their wingspans.
