2003.08.24

So ever since Lily moved out near Lake Merritt in Oakland, she'd been telling me about all these birdies that there were to feed, specifically: ducks, geese, and pigeons. Now I'm not exactly the biggest fan of pigeons myself, but I thought I'd go check it out while visiting Lily and Robert....

Here are all the pigeons gathered around little pockets of crushed cereal that someone left in piles for them to eat. What's really scary is when someone comes jogging by, and the entire flock of them goes flying off in the distance as one gigantic group.

And here's Lily feeding one of the geese. What you don't see in the picture is that further left of this one goose, there was huge crowd of them loitering in the middle of the street trying to get those little pieces of bread that we were throwing in their general direction. More than two drivers were slightly annoyed by this, I bet.

And here's a pigeon eating birdseed out of Lily's hand. At times, there were up to four or five pigeons perched on lily's lap fighting for this stuff; she was just a regular "bird lady" in the park....

Here was one of the pigeons that stood out over the others: because it was mostly white.