Journal of a Sabbatical

May 30, 2000

reading & writing

Today's Bird Sightings:
Plum Island
great egret (12)
common grackle(6)
mourning dove(4)
gray catbird(17)
redwing blackbird(17)
yellow warbler(2)
eastern kingbird(11)
bobolink(2)
great blue heron(2)
mute swan (6)
mallard (26)
purple martin (11)
American black duck (2)
white-throated sparrow (1)
killdeer (2)
Canada goose (7)
green heron (1)
gadwall (2)
American robin (4)
purple finch (5)
willet (2)
shortbilled dowitcher(1)
double crested cormorant (13)
snowy egret (2)
brownheaded cowbird (1)
field sparrow (1)
brown thrasher (1)
cedar waxwing (1)
yellow-rumped warbler (2)
seaside sparrow (1)
great black backed gull (1)
herring gull (29)
song sparrow (1)
Baltimore oriole (1)

Today's Reading: The Birds of Brewery Creek by Malcolm MacDonald,
Uttermost Part of the Earth by E. Lucas Bridges

Today's Starting Pitcher:
Jeff Fassero

Beach roses in the late afternoon sun. Seven great egrets flying overhead. A lone short-billed dowitcher pumping up and down probing the mud over and over again. A rumpled white-throated sparrow looking windblown on a fence post.