Above is a Mourning Dove. They have white edged tails.
Saw red winged blackbird first bird Monday. Today was a cardinal, then starling, then dove.
A birder says she sees the eagle once a month. Mentioned osprey.
Maybe you can have all the things that you've ever dreamed of
Maybe you can drive your hummer down your gold plated streets with your dove
Of all the things you want to buy, how do they make you feel inside?
You won't find your light in the bargain bin
So you better start your path within and
Revolutionize your soul
(revolutionize your soul)
What if you had never seen a skyscraper or a superstar
Going up and down in an elevator never knowing who you are
Of all the things that you have seen
Do you even know where you have been?
Get up right now and look towards the light this may be your last chance to ignite and
Revolutionize your soul
Revolutionize your soul
I was walking through Willow Lake and I saw a bald eagle. I saw a robins, crows, doves and saw a yellow bird I couldn't identify and I saw an eagle! White feathers around it's head, long wings, gliding along. I ran to try and catch more of it, but it was gone before I got to the lake to try and see it.
There was a bird call. I wasn’t familiar with so I took out my BirdNET app and it said it was a Northern Cardinal.
Says Translife:
When I was a psychotherapist I worked for a year with male to female non-op trans population in East New York. I would have never known about that side of life. None of them really wanted psychotherapy, they all told me that I just wanted to f&%$k them. One wanted the operation, at the time it was $7k in Thailand or Ecuador. She wanted that money, went to a bar to find someone who would sponsor her. That's why some of them do sex work. I could never figure out who would sleep with people like that, and then I had a really handsome patient who was a sex addict, and would go to the bar. It's a side of life I was pretty unaware of and I'm grateful to the trans staff member who talked openly with me. She had to be in a male prison and it was hard to shower with the other men when she had boobs. Another patient said he liked prison the best, he was the girlfriend of top dog and was treated the best she's ever treated when she was in jail. Hard for her to not want to go back.
My heart goes out to that population and for the evil current regime to demonize them, use transphobia to score political points horrifies me. I thought about working with the population for a while but I thought it would be too much for me to always be accused of wanting to sleep with them, I found that unpleasant and untrue, and I didn't like to have to say the opposite, no I wasn't attracted to them, that felt like a weird kind of cruelty and none of their business.
I feel like trans hate is unnatural. If you really met someone who was trans and talked to them, you'd realize it was a cruel genetic joke to be born feeling like you were the wrong gender. I read a lot and didn't really read anything good till I read the graphic novel Gender Queer. Which was actually about a woman, who at times felt like she was a man. One of the therapist I worked with went female to male, had top surgery. She would always razz me like a man, it was weird, once the started getting shots of testosterone. The woman I worked with died. There used to be a night they read off every transperson who died in NYC. Many are killed, but there are also health complications and the woman who did sex work get HIV. Just like gay people, some people feel revulsion when they think about it, and don't have the awareness to realize their revulsion doesn't mean they can persecute someone, and the current regime encourages that. I'm hoping this is a step back to which we take two huge steps forward soon.
Walked by the lake, red winged blackbirds, thought I saw some type of maybe blue jay.
Guys working on the bridge. I thought of how the Cyclone is rebuilt many times a year out of wood. This bridge is on top of an old bridge.
Saw a black Mallard come out of the water and then go back into the water. Saw turtles bobbing their head above the water and taking a look around. The flight path means there’s a new airplane coming in every 90 seconds, over Lefrak City and Forest Hills. Planted some more wildflower seeds.
I saw a black bird, smaller with specs, looked it up and it said European Starling.
New book on Starling: Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird by Mike Stark, reviewed in the Wall Street Urinal:
“...the species’ deliberate 1877 introduction to New York City by a wealthy “man of leisure” named Eugene Schieffelin, the scion of a pharmaceutical family and an avid student of birds.”
I'd say the bird I most see at Willow is a robin.
I wake up to a robin's song before sunrise.
American robin is the most abundant landbird in North America (with 370 million individuals), ahead of red-winged blackbirds, including European starlings, mourning doves and house finches. It has seven subspecies. (Wikipedia)
An American Robin can produce three successful broods in one year. (All About Birds) Robins eat a lot of fruit in fall and winter. When they eat honeysuckle berries exclusively, they sometimes become intoxicated.
The oldest recorded American Robin was 13 years and 11 months old.
