I got up at 6:30 this morning, and headed over to the WPA Rock Garden for a walk. It was actually a little chilly outside (about 53°) with a nice breeze, so it was actually quickly lovely. I’d gone there with the idea of walking through the garden and around the ponds, then go to the zoo, then go grocery shopping. I was waaaaay too ambitious, especially considering that I’ve been tired all week. So I did my walk and shopped for groceries, cutting out the zoo entirely for today. Tomorrow, the zoo is supposed to be hosting a Pokémon Go day, but today I saw all of the adults and older kids out around the park and hanging out in front of the zoo, to see what Poké-stuff they could find. Hah!
There wasn’t a lot really new to see at the park today, but I did get to watch a mama Robin feeding one of her three fledglings. The babies were all very capable of feeding themselves, but pestered mom for food anyway. Danged teenagers. Hah! I got some video of that exchange.
CLICK HERE to see it, and other photos in the album for this day.
I also watched a hummingbird trying to take a bath in the water caught in the leaves of a tree after a sprinkler got to it, and got s little snippet of video of that, too. There was enough moisture to get the bird’s feathers wet, but not much else, so it ended up just looking like it had bed-head. Hah-2!
Oh, and on my way out of the park, I saw a crow across the lawn that looked very odd. It looked like it had a white or pale yellow patch on the back of its neck that wrapped around to its cheeks. (I thought maybe it was a weird-looking magpie at first, but its body and beak were definitely “crow”.) None of the other crows seemed to care about the oddball one; they worked with it to try to find stuff to eat. It was too far away for me to see it clearly, though; and the camera couldn’t “reach” far enough to see it clearly either. As far as I could tell, I surmised that the crow must have been in the middle of a molt and the pale color I was seeing was is skin and undercoat of feathers.
