We had finished our journey at the duck pond and we were freezing our hands off. We shivered our way into the car. Beaker especially was having difficulties. As we stopped at a light near CVS Pharmacy, he was the first to say quite quickly, “Well let’s go home! Enough birds and…”
“Hey look,” I said, “European Starlings.”
Everyone looked around. “Where?”
“Over there on the power lines near CVS”
“I don’t think we should stop for ugly black birds,” Beaker said. Beaker usually has a dislike for black, bald or boring birds.
“But Beaker,” I said, “European Starlings are very colorful and sparkly in the sunlight.”
“Yes, but…”
“And they were introduced here because of their occurrence in Shakespeare .”
“Um… Yes.”
“And it’s a new bird.”
“Oh, okay,” he said. Beaker pulled into the CVS Pharmacy parking lot and parked.
Hawkeye shook her head. “You crazy man.” She couldn’t believe we were going out in the cold to get a closer look at ‘ugly birds’.
Beaker and I got out and Beaker started trying to get pictures. A scowl began to form on his face. “What’s the matter, Beaker? This cold bothering you?”
“No.” He answered. “There’s too much back-light.”
I thought about that for a while. “If we went into the road there would be no back-light.”
“Yes,” Beaker said, “but that would be the last picture we would take!”
Okay, so we didn’t get he best pictures, but it was still cool to see the Shakespeare bird.
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