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June 18, 1999 5 snowy egrets
Today's Starting Pitcher: Mark Portugal Reading: Before the Dawn
Copyright © 1999, Janet I. Egan |
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But after I rendezvoused with Tom at Starbucks - after spending 20 minutes looking for a parking space because Main Street was blocked off for the street sale days - and savored my coffee, it looked like the sky was clearing a little and I thought "y'know, I really need a picture of a cedar waxwing for my online journal." That's probably the first recorded instance of somebody going outdoors and connecting to nature because of the Internet. As you can see, the sky got gray again and the cedar waxwing wouldn't pose to show off his crest to best advantage. Said cedar waxwing was at Sandy Point, while his three closest friends were up by parking lot 6. Maybe this one is a loner.
Oh yeah and I answered my own question about whether teal nest on the refuge. At the North Pool I spotted two broods of tiny fluffy duck like beings, one following a female green-winged teal and one following a female blue-winged teal. I infer them to be teeny teal. |
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I
do have interests other than birds, really I do. I started
the day with the intention of working on the yard, buying
cat food (an expedition to Petsmart is nontrivial with the
traffic on 114 lately), working on the yard, fixing the
window or calling somebody to do it, buying a new weed
whacker, working on the yard...
On
my way back to the entrance, the sky had cleared again and
the salt pannes were like a huge totally ripple-free mirror
reflecting blue sky and puffy white clouds. And those
phalaropes were back. I don't know where they were hiding
when I stopped there at the beginning of my trek, but
obviously haven't left the area. So I tried again to
photograph them in a way that didn't make them look like
blobs. They look less like blobs but aren't quite
recognizable as phalaropes either.