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That early morning pigeon flock in Prospect Park changed my whole walk route
I used to go the same path every day at 5:30 AM through the north end of Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Saw lots of robins and cardinals but never paid much attention to the pigeons under the benches. Then one morning about 3 weeks ago a whole flock of maybe 40 of them rose up all at once when a dog ran past, and the light hit their feathers making this blue green shimmer I never noticed before. Now I take a different path each day to see what I've been missing. Anybody else had a bird you see all the time do something that made you look at it different?
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the_diana3mo ago
Did you ever look at pigeons and think yeah, I'm about as forgettable as a bird that lives under a bench and eats french fries? I had something similar happen with crows last winter, they were picking up bread crusts and dunking them in a puddle to soften them up, and I realized I was watching something smarter than half my exes. It's wild how the most common thing can just flip your whole brain around like that.
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tylerpark3mo ago
Diana, that crow thing hits hard. Watching an animal figure out a solution right in front of you is a little humbling. I had a moment like that with a squirrel once. It was trying to get into a bird feeder that was supposed to be squirrel-proof. That thing tried about five different angles, hung upside down, and then just figured out a way to shimmy the lid off. Made me feel like a real amateur for thinking I had outsmarted a rodent.
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