I came home one day to find this outside my front door. Just feathers. No blood, no body parts, just feathers. I jumped to the conclusion that a hawk cornered a pigeon or dove on our front doorstep.
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Category Archives: Birds
Pace Bend Park
We hiked Pace Bend Park recently. It was my first time there. It was overcast and 46 degrees with a little wind chill factor.
Along Lake Travis
Great Blue Heron sheltered from the wind
Anticipation: Weekly Photo Challenge
Where there are people, there is food. Where’s mine?
Weekly Photo Challenge: Anticipation
Sisters of the Sky: Fiction Friday
The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
Photo copyright Lucy Fridkin
Sisters of the Sky
Joyce’s dream was always some variation of the same subject: she flew high above the city, circling the skyscrapers. She felt her smooth feathers, hollow bones, the uplifting wind.
As usual, a phoenix appeared on her left; on her right, a gryphon. Sisters of the sky. Together they flew towards the horizon. Each night she left them, returned to the city, woke up, went on with her life.
One night, she decided not to turn back. Wingtip to wingtip they soared into the east, screaming in solidarity. Joyce wondered if she would wake up in the morning. She thought not.
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To read other Friday Fictioneer stories based on this photo, select the smiley blue frog.
Eastern Phoebe
I heard a couple of birds calling out to each other. I finally got a photograph of this Eastern Phoebe.
I was using my big lens on a monopod and the wind was blowing me around a little bit, so the photograph isn’t as clear as I’d like it to be. Maybe the little birds will hang around for a few days and give me another chance.
It's a long story ... 