Journal of a Sabbatical

June 29, 2001

not a lot

Today's Bird Sightings
Plum Island
yellow warbler (6)
redwinged blackbird (9)
gadwall (29)
snowy egret (4)
mute swan (7)
short billed dowitcher (2)
killdeer (7)
mallard (25)
lesser yellowlegs (1)
northern mockingbird (4)
American black duck (3)
song sparrow (1)
Canada goose (5)
bobolink (4)
gray catbird (5)
cedar waxwing (5)
osprey (1)
American robin (1)
herring gull (32)
double crested cormorant (54)
American crow (2)
willet (6)
purple finch (1)
great black back gull (2)
mourning dove (2)
tree swallow (4)
common tern (1)
common grackle (3)
purple martin (1)
Nelson Island
snowy egret
redwinged blackbird
eastern kingbird
tree swallow
common grackle

Today's Reading: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella Bird, A Flora of Essex County by Stuart K. Harris

Today's Starting Pitcher:
Tim Wakefield

2001 Book List
2001 Plum Island Bird List
Plum Island Life List

Photos:

Greenhead

Bouncing Bet

Hedge Bindweed

Milkweed

Thistle

Water Hemlock

Celandine

They're baaack!

Otherwise, there's not a lot to say. But there are a lot of weeds in bloom.

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