Keitt Lab

I'm at NESCent this week. Lots of fun thinking about mechanstic models for species range dynamics.

I was all set to give two talks in a symposium at the IALE meetings in Madison. Unfortunately I was flying American Airlines. They canceled my flight about an hour before leaving. The airport was mayhem with people stranded from earlier in the day desperately trying to get onto flights. It was 4pm and I was talking in the morning. I just went home. No way I would have made it. What is so irksome is that AA knew that the flights would be canceled, but waited until the last minute to actually tell anyone. You've probably heard, but AA grounded its fleet of MD80's for required maintenance.

Best wishes to all in 2008.

I decided to get out of town on Christmas and went birding around Corpus Christi (strange name for a city). I camped on the beach under a full moon at Mustang Island State Park. Quite spectacular. Fog slowed the early morning start. The fog cleared as I drove up to Port Aransas. I spotted a Merlin on the power lines along the way. The community park was slow. All the usual suspects (Stilts, Avocets, Teal, White Pelicans, Neotropical Cormorant). I then headed inland across the ferry to Port Aransas Pass. The inner bay was entirely filled with birds.