It has been almost seven days since the Cosco Busan hit the Bay Bridge and spilled over 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel into the bay. I have been out looking for oiled birds to report and finding them every day that I go out. Sometimes the bird is completely covered.
and sometimes it is only partial..
But I have not been to the worst beaches, where hundreds of dead and dying birds have been recovered. This is a mess and will take a long time to clean up. Take heart, there are a lot of people working on this, but remember this could have been prevented and we need to do a better job of protecting what we have.
Regards,
Glenn Nevill
p.s. pages these shots were taken from are available online at www.raptor-gallery.com in the ‘07 diary section.
