The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

3

http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/835 (best for listening)

http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/comecloser.mp3 (Azure voice, oud)
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/oudsolo.mp3 (short, oud)
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/constant.mp3 (long, sarangi)

Birding and Others

Azure, Adam, and I went birding at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and
the village of Broad Channel. We stopped and stared at:

laughing gulls :
ospreys :
a cardinal :
a brown thrasher :
a black-crowned night-heron :
tree swifts :
barn swallows :
great white herons :
little blue herons :
mute swans :
mallards :
catbirds :
a cowbird :
a little green heron :
a yellow-crowned night-heron :
chimney swifts :
a purple martin :
common terns :
starlings :
ruddy ducks :
canada geese :
robins :
pigeons :
red-winged blackbirds :
common grackles :
boat-tailed grackles :
crows :
house sparrows :
glossy ibis :
a mocking bird :
double-crested cormorants :
and sanderlings :

and eastern carpenter bees :
and a diamond-back terrapin laying eggs :
and a raccoon :
and flowering opuntia :

the end :

http://www.alansondheim.org/jamaicabay05.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/jamaicabay17.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/jamaicabay26.jpg