My City By The Bay

Birds, birds, they’re everywhere.  Along the Great Highway in San Francisco @ Ocean Beach is their home.  They play there, they hang out on the sand and wait for picnic scraps to become available for a little snack.  They perch on light-posts, they perch on traffic lights and they stand on the ocean walls posing for photos.  

The seagulls swing and sway across humid skies as if dancing to unheard tunes.  The crows hover and loom making their presence known with haunting cries.  The pigeons rummage and waddle eating anything in sight.

Crows have for the past few years become a regular fixture out in the Avenues along the beach.  You can hear their cries in the early morning hours and they normally congregate out along the Great Highway.  You can always find them together with seagulls, pigeons and blackbirds just frolicking along the foliage as if they are all having a party.  Many feed them along the path.  They bring joy to many though many don’t even notice they are there.

They, in their own little world make what is available their home.  We marvel at the fact they can use their wings to fly up and above and beyond anywhere or anything.  Yet we seldom see them.  We ignore them.  We fail to see that they are living creatures just like us.  They need those scraps of food to survive and they need those light posts and traffic lights in which to sleep.  They occupy this earth as do we and make the world a better place.

They are natural wonders as are all of us.  

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