Journal of a Sabbatical

October 29, 1999

brown creeper

October 29, 199
Plum Island

1 greater yellowlegs
30 green-winged teal
1 great blue heron
2 yellow-rumped warblers
4 northern mockingbirds
1 dark-eyed junco
62 snow buntings
10 sanderlings
2 surf scoters
9 common eiders
1 horned grebe
2 common loons
1 white-winged scoter
1 double crested cormorant
2 herring gulls
1 great black backed gull
1 brown creeper
3 snow geese

Mammals: 1 coyote - the blonde one

Today's Reading: Thirty Years by John Marquand

	Plum Island Bird List Bird of the day: brown creeper methodically circling each fence post from bottom to top Runner up for bird of the day: flock of 62 snow buntings Don't feed the coyote!