mockingbird
Where: Smithsonian Castle Gardens When: 4:50 pm Bird Species: northern mockingbird, rock pigeon, northern cardinal, European starling, blue jay, American robin, common grackle Things I Thought About: * It is 82 goddamn degrees. I walked over here after work and the minute I stopped walking I was in a full
urban birds
Where: Smithsonian Castle When: 6:40 pm Bird Species: gray catbird, American robin, northern mockingbird Things I Thought About: * A lot of new little corner parks and benches and little installation pieces have popped up all over downtown and around the Mall, and I like a lot of them, and
urban birds
Where: Smithsonian Castle Gardens When: 5:25 pm Bird Species: rock pigeon, gray catbird, northern mockingbird, American robin, mourning dove, northern cardinal, house finch Things I Thought About: * It has been a minute since I did downtown D.C. birds, and I kind of hoped I'd find somewhere
mockingbird
Where: my balcony When: 3:00 pm Bird Species: northern mockingbird, American crow (flyover), song sparrow Things I Thought About: * This bad haircut. It's very frustrating. I said "I need you to take it up and get it off my neck, it's too sweaty"
mockingbird
Where: the neighborhood When: 7:40am Bird Species: northern cardinal, northern mockingbird, European starling, common grackle, American crow, blue jay, red-bellied woodpecker, American robin, house sparrow Things I Thought About: * ♫ All the waiters in your grand café ♬ Leave their tables when you blink ♫ Oh ohhohhhh ♬ * I heard "Summer,
mockingbird
Where: my complex When: 1:30pm Bird Species: northern cardinal, American crow (flyover), blue jay, house sparrow, mourning dove, northern mockingbird * The Capital Weather Gang has adopted a pretty sassy online persona for an outfit that regularly predicts snow totals as “less than 2 to maybe 11 inches, depending.” * I
mockingbird
Where: the neighborhood When: 11:30am Bird Species: house sparrow, American crow, mourning dove, Northern mockingbird Things I Thought About: * It’s cloudy and chilly and the light is dreadful, and I think it’s supposed to rain again in an hour. I bet I don’t see a single
mockingbird
Where: around my condo complex and the one next door When: very late (too late) afternoon Bird species: house sparrow, house finch, mourning dove, American robin, European starling, Canada goose (flyover), northern mockingbird Things I Thought About: * The sun is going down later, I think, but the sun didn’t