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Friday's
Bird Sightings:
Plum Island
purple martin (3)
willet (4)
redwinged blackbird (16)
common grackle (5)
least sandpiper (7)
short billed dowitcher (8)
gadwall (27)
double crested cormorant (30)
tree swallow (5)
least tern (2)
killdeer (2)
snowy egret (6)
herring gull (54)
gray catbird (3)
northern mockingbird (4)
yellow warbler (3)
mourning dove (3)
great black backed gull (2)
Canada goose (12)
osprey (2)
lesser yellowlegs (7)
common tern (2)
bobolink (1)
black-capped chickadee (1)
easter kingbird (4)
brown thrasher (1)
cedar waxwing (2)
American goldfinch (2)
spotted sandpiper (1)
Wilson's phalarope (1)
Today's
Bird Sightings
Watchemoket Cove
Canada goose (64)
mallard (18)
mute swan (15)
herring gull (21)
great black backed gull (1)
ring billed gull (1)
laughing gull (1)
common tern (2)
domestic goose (2)
snowy egret (2)
mourning dove (1)
American crow (1)
house sparrow (4)
double crested cormorant (1)
northern flicker (1)
Today's
Reading: Return of the Osprey by David Gessner,
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan, Who Killed
the Great Auk? by Jeremy Gaskell
Today's
Starting Pitcher:
xxxx
2001
Book List
2001
Plum Island Bird List
Plum
Island Life List
Watchemoket
Cove Bird List
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Friday, July 6:
One year since my brother
Billy's death.
Willet chick foraging in the
saltmarsh grass under the watchful eye of its
mother.
Perfect weather.
Saturday, July 7:
All walking buddies present
for Saturday morning walk for the first time in
months.
Unexpected visit from Charla and
Bob bearing a baseball autographed by Luis
Tiant.
"Monogolian movie" Nancy wanted to
rent turns out to be The
Horse Thief, set in
Tibet (not Mongolia) and totally fabulous. Also - for
video birding purposes - features lots of Himalayan
griffins.
Today, Sunday, July 8:
Picked up The Botany of
Desire at the Brown Bookstore - they'd ordered one
for me two weeks ago and it just came in. While there
browsed Who Killed the Great Auk? for the
umpteenth time and decided I had to have it.
Laughing Gull at Watchemoket Cove -
first I've seen at the cove ever.
Northern Flicker also first at the
cove. At first I had trouble identifying it. I soooo
didn't expect a woodpecker flying by while I was counting
the molting mallards.
Mallards are molting.
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