For Tuesday's BioSITE lesson, we took the kids out to do a bit of bird watching, and fortunately saw some interesting birds. There were some Cedar Waxwings in a tree above the river, which most of the kids in my group missed because they had trained their binoculars on a squirrel in an entirely different tree. They all saw the ducks - mallards and canvasbacks, and were much more impressed than you'd think anybody would be while observing ducks. The coolest thing we saw was a Cooper's Hawk, which was partially obscured by its nest high in a tree. A smaller bird, taking issue with the hawk, hounded it out of the tree and the minor avian drama continued elsewhere out of sight.

The fog was nowhere near as thick tonight as it was last night, which is a shame.

cds I listened to while wishing the fog would come back: Shinjuku Thief "Medea", Mecca Normal "Janis Zeppelin", Set Fire To Flames "Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static", Frankie Sparo "Welcome Crummy Mystics", and Six Organs of Admittance "s/t"