To describe my lifelong fascination with flight and with creatures that fly I like to echo the words of John James Audubon who in 1839 wrote of himself as "...one who never can cease to admire and to study with zeal and the most heartfelt reverence, the wonderful productions of an Almighty Creator."
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
European Starlings on a cold day
Maybe it's because I've had almost no time to even look at a bird in recent weeks. Or maybe it's because I'm overcoming a long-held prejudice. (I don't think that's it.) Maybe it was the brilliant sun and blue sky today, with the high temperature at about the freezing level. Whatever it was, a closeup view of some European Starlings searching for food in the frozen grass in front of my office reminded me that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. For just a moment or two there I saw Starlings in a new light.
Maybe it's because I've had almost no time to even look at a bird in recent weeks. Or maybe it's because I'm overcoming a long-held prejudice. (I don't think that's it.) Maybe it was the brilliant sun and blue sky today, with the high temperature at about the freezing level. Whatever it was, a closeup view of some European Starlings searching for food in the frozen grass in front of my office reminded me that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. For just a moment or two there I saw Starlings in a new light.
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What? Where is my dad and what have you done with him?
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