Today was a beautiful spring day, the kind where you think maybe today is the day that you might remove your wool hat and enjoy some bright yellow sunshine. I was waiting at the bus stop for my bus when I spotted a pigeon flying repeatedly back and forth across the road. It took me a few passes to realize that it was collecting twigs on one side of the road and carrying them over to where it was building a nest on the roof of a building adjacent to the bus stop. "Awww" I thought, "how very spring-y", and I watched it fly a bit more before I remembered that I had some popcorn in my purse.
Now, I'm not normally the one to feed a pigeon, I'm more of a duck and geese type, but this guy was working so hard and I admired the job that was still ahead of him (her?) so I quickly checked both ways (safety first!) and scooted across the road to where it had been gathering material and tossed a few kernels onto the ground. I jogged back to my spot and waited eagerly to see if it would find my treat, hoping that I would see it before the bus came and I had to leave.
So I watched, and watched, for about 10 minutes. But it never seemed to go back to that place. Maybe it smelled me, maybe it just didn't have food on its mind, but I didn't see it notice the popcorn at all. I was disappointed, and then I had a revelation that I certainly hadn't expected to get from a pigeon.
You can only help someone so much, and they have to do the rest themselves.
Haha, it's silly I know, but yet it is very true a lot of the time. So I learned something from a pigeon today, and as ridiculous as that sounds, it's probably a lesson that will stick with me simply due to my unexpected instructor.
And without further ado, a pigeon centered video, which I found hilarious: Pigeon Impossible
pahahaha. I don't have headphone and this is the first time I've been able to watch that. So funny! Very clever too.
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