Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale

I'm on Block Island this morning, waiting for the Metropolitan Opera to call.

( what I'm doing )

There seem to be a lot of birds singing today. I don't remember hearing them a couple weeks ago. But lest y'all think this is a harbinger of spring, there were three common eiders swimming around in Old Harbor as the boat arrived. Those are winter birds; they spend the rest of the year in the high Arctic, except for a few oddballs that breed on the Boston Harbor islands.

No seals today. There were two of them in Point Judith Harbor the last time I came out here.