fishermen in fog May 27, 2006
The fog is so thick I can't see Emerson Rocks let alone anything or anybody that might be on the beach beyond about 60 feet from me. If that. I'm staring into the fog when three fishermen materialize between me and Emerson Rocks. In the fog I can't tell how far away they are and besides that there are three of them so I radio the gatehouse to get Unit 61 on it. By the time he gets there they've moved close enough that I could yell at them but he thanks me anyway. For some reason, despite the fog there are a lot of people on the beach, including kids. The kids I talk to have learned about endangered species in school but when I ask them to name one I get "tiger" and this from a kid who came to the festival last weekend. So much more education is needed about our little invisibirds. I give the kid a brochure about what you can do to save the piping plover. I'm rewarded for my efforts with a flyby of three invisibirds whistling their peep-lo call. Cool.		Bird Sightings May 27 Plum Island bobolink redwinged blackbird cedar waxwing brown thrasher eastern kingbird northern mockingbird gray catbird mourning dove American goldfinch brownheaded cowbird piping plover great egret common tern herring gull black bellied plover double crested cormorant sanderling semipalmated plover great black back gull northern cardinal Reading Today: The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule by Joanna Kavenna This Year's Reading 2006 Booklist
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