Journal of a Sabbatical

The Plover Warden Diaries

May 17, 1999

piping plovers

May 17, 1999
Plum Island
1 great black-backed gull
6 common terns
3 double-crested cormorants
2 piping plovers!
2 common loons

Reading: Salt Tide by Christopher J. Badger, Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown, Plovers, Snipes, and Sandpipers of the World by Paul Johnsgaard.

parallel run

start stop

catching bugs in the wrack

crossing their footprints in the sand when I left

shadow of a black backed gull passing overhead

disappearing into the sand when they sit down

so close I could watch without binoculars - one ran right in front of me

cold in the wind

ocean stretching so far I can understand why people used to think you could fall off the edge of the earth - it's counterintuitive to think otherwise

deep blue

I can't believe they're this close to me!