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I heard a new ice sound
today. The ice is softer now and more opaque. When
ice floes crash into each other they make a slushy
swishing sound and crumble along the edges instead
of breaking into pieces. Sometimes they flip over
and float with just one edge sticking up. All
manner of things seem to hitch rides on the ice
floes too. I saw huge branches float by on ice and
even a tree trunk that was so smoothed and worn by
its trip downriver that it looked a lot like a seal
hauled out to sunbathe. The funniest thing I saw
was two cormorants standing on an ice floe with
their wings spread out to dry floating by really
fast as the tide went out. If the ice was moving
any faster I think the cormorants would have found
themselves in flight unintentionally.
After dark, the fog rolled in
and the visibility went to zero pretty quickly.
Going over the drawbridge on Bridge Rd. I felt like
I was airborne with fog below me, fog above me, fog
in front of me. For a second it was hard to locate
myself in space.
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Today's Bird
Sightings
Chain Bridge
great blue heron (3)
common merganser (3)
great cormorant (37)
ring billed gull (1)
great black back gull (2)
Today's Reading
Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn by Elizabeth
Bisland, Sails and Whales by Capt. H.A.
Chippendale
This Year's Reading
2003
Book List
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