All images in vicinity of Lat 29,3.0279N Long 90,55.6074W. Specific locations for each image is embedded in the meta data. We revisited Raccoon Island on August 8 to find more of the same from my visit on July 18, the difference this time was that there were not as many birds…… probably at least 60% less but just as much death if not more. Pelicans, Seagulls, Bull Redfish, Drum….you name it it was dead on the beach.  Oil had hit Raccoon Island last week and the island was obviously manicured, BP had set up tents on the 2 adjoining Islands.  All of the boom that was on the island and on top the jetties was gone, and the island was flat where it once had a more natural terrain….two of the pelicans had died very recently, and it was most disturbing that one of them was hooked to a sparkle beetle which was tangled in dead mangrove…….I have no doubt that either Wildlife and Fisheries or BP workers had to have seen this Pelican while alive and just left him there to die.  A lot of the dead birds stomach cavities were open and a brown sludge covered the inside, with the scent of oil……necropsies will be performed on the specimens retrieved.  We also took a specimen of the green sludge the birds were drinking out of in the middle of the island.
See the rest of my coverage from mid may up to date at http://nativeorleanian.com/category/bp-oil-spill/

This is a report done with Nancy Parker and FOX 8 New Orleans after my last visit, you would  think things might have changed, even a little….