Day 257 - a Year by the Sea

Today’s surprise visitor was an American Avocet. With the scent of fall heavy in the northwest winds, this lone bird was feeding in a tidal pond at Belle Isle. I’ve never seen one before. This is a very distinctive bird. The long slightly upturned bill reminds me of a fifties cigarette ad with a gorgeously attired woman in satin gloves smoking from a long black cigarette holder. Elegant even if improbable. I certainly don’t miss the fifties of my childhood but that impossible unreal idea of elegance was light years away for a kid from Dorchester. It was an alien vision of another world. I much prefer the simpler natural elegance of a bird like this.

Ciao!

-Jorge

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