Journal of a Sabbatical

August 25, 1999

dishes and litter boxes

August 25, 1999
Plum Island Birds
salt pannes
12 semipalmated sandpipers
3 semipalmated plovers
1 greater yellowlegs
2 lesser yellowlegs
across from lot 3
1 snowy egret
4 black-bellied plovers
4 semipalmated plovers
22 semipalmated sandpipers
4 least sandpipers
1 greater yellowlegs
1 common tern
north pool
56 black ducks
1 northern harrier
2 kestrels
Sandy Point
1 cedar waxwing
Hellcat
14 semipalmated sandpipers
6 killdeer
12 semipalmated plovers
104 Canada geese
17 double crested cormorants
4 snowy egrets
1 great egret
200 herring gulls
4 great black back gulls
1 American crow
8 mallards
2 American goldfinches
1 eastern kingbird

Plum Island Mammals
2 coyotes

Today's Starting Pitcher: Mark Portugal

Today's Reading: none

It's good to be back at the sink amongst dishes and litter boxes. Midgee has achieved total domination over the big yellow bucket since I've been gone. Her main rivals, Jazzpurr and Joey, have both been adopted. Now Midgee only has to move went we want to get litter out of the bucket.

There's a URI going around - lots of kitties coughing and sneezing in the sick room. Poor cats!

The board is full of adoptions, but the cages are full of new cats.

Roy caulked the sink while I was gone so I don't get these wet, black, sticky smudges on the bottom of my T-shirt anymore.

Bob, who's a plover warden (I recruited him) too, says the beach reopened Monday. The remaining chicks must be ready to fly. Just in time too. He also says he got a pizza from Angelina's Sunday night and they are closed this week for the big move across the street. Why did Angelina's cross the road? To get to the other side. Guess no veggie sub for lunch today.

I grabbed a sandwich from Teaberries and a large dark roast coffee from Fowle's and headed for a drive-by birding pass at the refuge. Birds there were, though no new ones for the list. Coyotes too. The coyotes have gotten very bold. The blondish one came within 10 feet of me at Hellcat. I guess they're still young enough that they haven't developed a fear of humans.