Observer: Eloise Bacher
Date: 11 October, 2008
Time: 1115-1130
Location: Evergreen Dorms
Weather: Sunny, still a little cold, some wispy white clouds.

There are crows flying around in the cedars, silent for the most part, but occasionally they'll come down and yell at each other for trying to steal food. They're incredibly sleek and glossy, very, very healthy birds. There must be a lot of people food dropped around here, and probably roadkill too. I can also hear more birds, less than there would have been a few hours ago, but still: some juncoes, a chickadee, I think. I remember hearing a coyote last night. The air smells wonderful too; I can smell the duff and the cedars and firs, and there's just a little bit of a sea smell in the air from the sound. It's a weird contrast...you don't really think of a college campus as being right in the middle of nature as completely as this, but it is.