Seagulls
Mourning Dove
Today's bird sightings thus far: osprey, cardinal, mourning dove (rather
slow bird day, for these parts).
Yes, I have seen this seagull in the parking lot phenomenon. Funny, how
it's usually at a discount store.
I'm just going to babble now:
I have noticed that small birds often nest in the "a" of the Walgre*ns
stores' signs. Do you have that store up there? If so, check it out. I
also see birds nesting behind the letters of the Publ*x sign at the
grocery store- if you look carefully you can often spot the pieces of
nesting material hanging out. And at nearly every intersection, I see
very tiny birds entering the traffic lights where the wires coil and go
in at the top....really!! There are plenty of green spaces around here-
parks, wooded areas, etc. yet these birds choose to nest in these man
made spaces. I suppose the warmth generated by the lights might have
something to do with it, but who knows? I guess beauty is in the eye of
the beholder. We see beautiful creatures, and wonder why they are in
such an ugly place instead of in a natural, beautiful space. (I
immediately think of the thousands of birds hovering over landfills...)
Must be the aesthetics of their surroundings doesn't affect them as it
does us. "Food, shelter, survival? We'll find it where we have
to.....leave the aesthetics to those crazy humans!"
I know what you mean. It does look between bleak and ridiculous. And I
know what you mean when you say it feels familiar. In a cold, strange,
longing-filled and empty kind of way. (can you be empty and
longing-filled?.....oh, yes, I am babbling.)
dove
"Beauty" <bea...@nospam.zeppo.hm.uc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> There are seagulls who live in the parking lot of a closed down
> discount
> store in a strip mall where we sometimes go to eat Chinese food.
> Sometimes
> there are crows mixed in with them a little, but mostly seagulls.
> They
> sit
> on the ground, facing into the wind (so you can always tell which
> way
> the
> wind is blowing), and there are oh maybe eighty of them or so I
> think
> but
> I'm not very good at estimating numbers. It's very windy there.
> There is
> a Fr*endly's rest. there, too, so maybe between the fish from the
> Japanese/Chinese food place and the Fr*endly's they scavenge their
> dinners
> and stuff. And not too far away are other places like BK and Arb*'s
> RB.
>
> Why would you be a gull on the pavement of a b*mbed out discount
> store
> which used to have a filthy bathroom and aisles full of tumbled down
> no
> account merchandise? Hasn't anyone told them about the ocean? What
> do
> they think about all sitting on the parking lot in the cold? And
> they
> are
> spaced out from each other, just so, a yard or so apart from each
> other.
>
> So it's a weird kind of togetherness.
>
> It always looks somewhere between bleak and ridiculous. It feels
> familiar.
>
> Beauty.
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Ravensong
we are dropping in on a thread again. somehow we feel intrusive. sorry.
we love to watch the birds. we were thinking about the parking lots in the
mall and at the university when we read this, and how funny it was that we
usually see -k*lldeer- there!
that's a very stupid place for these birds to be hanging out!
we think we're going to go to W*lgr**n's and see if we see any birds nesting in
the "a." that sounds like fun! and we'll just think it's a little to weird if
they are...
:-)
Ravensong
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Beauty
which eek us out. What is it about seagulls and discount stores? Are they
looking for a good deal?
Beauty.
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