Journal of a Sabbatical

October 31, 1999

thistle, rosebud, maple leaves

October 31, 1999
Watchemoket Cove

40 starlings
1 northern mockingbird
12 ring billed gulls
1 double crested cormorant
81 mute swans
1 great blue heron
1 belted kingfisher
2 domestic geese
2 Bonaparte's gulls

1st unnamed cove to the south
120 American wigeons
2 American goldfinches
1 Canada goose

2nd unnamed cove to the south
1 great egret
2 mute swans
2 belted kingfishers
2 black ducks
10 American wigeons
1 double crested cormorant

Today's Reading: Thirty Years by John Marquand, Rhode Island Geology for the Non-Geologist by Alonzo W. Quinn