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July 19, 1998
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After last night's taiko extravaganza plus dinner afterwards and a long drive home, we were not in the mood for another drive to Newport even to see sumo. Nancy is big fan of X-Files and I'm not, but we went to see the X-Files Movie in Seekonk this afternoon anyway. I went mainly for the air conditioning. It was an OK way t o spend a hot afternoon, but I can't say it was a great movie. I did like the scenes of Scully and Muldur running frantically as the glacier collapses behind them. I left the movie unclear on who was conspiring with whom to what end, but entertained somehow nonetheless. After the movie we had supper at Friendly's and went to the cove to check on the birds. Statistics:
One of the snowies and one of the great egrets walked into a small cove off the cove where a swan was resting. They walked very slowly, a stately pace. The great egret passed directly in front of the swan who did not react. A few minutes later, the snowy passed the swan, also without incident. Both egrets fished for a long time swishing their feet around and jabbing with their bills into the water. The swan never budged. Mute swans are usually so aggressive, I feared for the egrets, but in about 20 minutes of watching this drama the swan never even hissed at them. The local Canada geese (as opposed to the ones stopping by during migration) were across the cove near the bike path so I couldn't tell if any of them was Igor. One maimed goose was hanging out near the bridge with the two domestic geese but it looked to have a different injury. We have seen a second disabled goose there before, who was much friendlier than Igor - actively begging for food. This one wasn't doing that, but it still could've been the same one. We tried to come up with some alien conspiracy theories linked to the cove: exactly what does the East Providence Water Pollution Control Division do in that little pumping station? Did Shakespeare deliberately mention starlings knowing that a demented reader would import them to North America so they could take over? And are the swans part of it too? |
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