birds

photo-Andrew Hines


The time when the snow is melting, and you just leave the library to go for walks to the big g for no real reason other than you want to reassure yourself it is still 'that great' outside, aka finally FINALLY being warm again, and you come back toward the campus with your bag of snacks, and you notice a man looking up with binoculars at a tree.
and it turns out he is an ornothologist, and he's never seen this particular bird inside the city before.
He figures it must have been attempting to fly through, and got tired, thus explaining it's presence not only in the city but on campus. Luckily it is during the exam period, and most frats and frosh have sayonara-ed themselves back to the homestead already, and noone is around to throw coors light cans at this amazing little thing.

And then when you and Andy ask how he managed to even notice, the ornotholigist responds:
"I guess in my line of work you spend a lot of time looking up"

Amen