the rain, the refuge, and other things June 10, 2006
It's raining again (still.) It seems like it has been raining since September.   There were a bunch of cedar waxwings on the refuge sitting out the rain. Some of them were even singing. I have no idea what possessed me to go to the refuge for my shift this morning. I couldn't possibly have believed the rain would stop any time soon. It was the deluge. Gatehouse gave me the radio anyway so I drove down to the south boundary and checked on the signs and the sticks and observed absolutely no visitors anywhere. Then, after photographing some wet cedar waxwings, I drove back to the gatehouse and returned the radio. Eventually I went across the river to the Fish Tale Diner for a late breakfast or early lunch. Mallards were swimming in the parking lot.		Today's Bird Sightings Plum Island brown thrasher 3 mourning dove 3 American robin redwinged blackbird bobolink 2 gadwall 1 double crested cormorant 66 herring gull 6 Bonaparte's gull 4 yellow warbler 1 song sparrow 1 gray catbird 2 cedar waxwing 2 tree swallow 4 American goldfinch 2 snowy egret 1 great egret 1 Today's Reading Fun House: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, Songbird Journeys by Miyoko Chu This Year's Reading 2006 Booklist
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