Birds in the City Assignment #1

Okay so I happen to think my husband is the best at everything...I realize that this is a bias opinion but whatever. A couple of the many things I think he rocks at are photography and writing. I really want him to take tons of pictures while we are travelling and take notes of things we see and write stories of things we experience. In order to give him practice I decided to give him a local photo/writing assignment every week. His first assignment was to take a picture of a bird that was not a chickadee and write a piece, 50-100 words, about the photo. I can't gurantee that I will post all of his work but I was totally in love with the first piece I just had to share it. I hope you all enjoy Assignment #1.

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It’s hard to think we would miss Rock Pigeons if they were gone. Their unremarkable personalities and understated plumage camouflaged in the dusty concrete tones of the city. Walking under the CN overpass on Argyll, carcasses are scattered in all stages of decomposition - externalities of our urban agenda. But looking up, females are warming eggs on cold concrete ledges. Males hover in air currents above. A train passes, dozens take flight and their bodies silhouette against the afternoon sky. As they turn in unison, light catches and highlights their undersides. The pollution fades, the traffic quiets and the colour of the city changes.


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