June 4, 2026
Where: my parking lot
When: 5:30 pm
Bird Species: house sparrow, American robin, northern cardinal, gray catbird, European starling, common grackle, mourning dove
Things I Thought About:
- I am feeling much better, but by the time I showered and dressed and fixed myself up and drove to the metro and put on a mask and rode into the office I could have been done for the day.
- I am not out for a relaxing, connect-to-the-natural-world, grounding bird walk today, this is an inspection tour. I am just looking at all the birds I can see and trying to pick the one that's best today for my featured bird. That's all I'm up for right now. I will fulfill the brief.
- I have no need to touch grass today. I need to touch pillow, with face.
- There is something tasty in that little depression in the ground. Good for them!
- I am almost out of room on this camera card because I took like forty crappy photos of the beautiful niece at the orchestra concert last night. She plays the stand-up bass and she owns.
- They should let aunts use a flash during the performance. That should be a common social nicety.
BOTD: gray catbird. He just looked the best, of all the ones I could see while standing in my parking lot. Maybe I'm also a little enchanted with the recent lawn work at that end of the complex? He just looked the cleanest and neatest.
I will say, in this very lazy and truncated version of Bird of the Day, that I have taken a moment (in retrospect, in the A/C, in my jimjams) to be grateful that I can see seven species of birds without taking ten steps away from my parking spot. This town may be nowhere near a metro stop, but it's a great place for birds, and I can recognize the abundance when I'm scrolling through the evidence on this completely filled, 4000 shot camera card.
