a couple of things

July 29, 2001

Today's Bird Sightings:
Plum Island
American goldfinch (1)
great blue heron (1)
common tern (3)
northern mockingbird (2)
cedar waxwing (6)
lesser yellow legs (2)
shortbilled dowitcher (infinite)
semipalmated plover (5)
gadwall (1)
double crested cormorant (30)
snowy egret (3)
great egret (2)
herring gull (48)
redwinged blackbird (47)
Canada goose (100)
great black back gull (1)
ring billed gull (3)
osprey (3)
bobolink (2)
eastern kingbird (5)
gray catbird (5)
mourning dove (1)

This Year's Bird List:
Plum Island Bird List

Today's Reading:
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

This Year's Reading:
2001 Book List

Today's Starting Pitcher:
David Cone

Piping plover news: 19 fledged, 6 more chicks. That's an outstanding year.

A thing I didn't know before: purple loosestrife is mentioned in Hamlet. They're the "long purples" in that Ophelia flower speech.

Nomar Garciaparra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a way to come back!!!!!!!! !!!