On the edge of Texas...

TDCJ owns many thousands of acres of Texas, where unpaid field worker crews raise and harvest crops and keep the grass, ditches and scrubland clear. Few outsiders have access to these areas, so the wildlife is more abundant.

This blog features occasional vignettes of the wildlife that one worker sees, close to the Louisiana border in East Texas. All of the written text belongs to the author, please do not reproduce without permission. All images are credited.

Wednesday 9 October 2013

10 September 2013

Birds, pigeons even!

Have you ever noticed how sure a bird appears in its element? For being the smallest of most creatures these chaps have the confidence of mountains. True there are those watchful skittish movements they all tend to make. But all in all I sense that birds know they with the exception of another quicker bird there aren't many things of which they cannot just flap away from.

Now the pigeon, that is the most pompous of all birds. What other bird dares to strut amongst us as if it were tending to our needs. I know no other.

Yes, if ever I was given the option of occupying another animal's body, it would definitely be a bird. But an eagle for sure, not a sparrow or a wren, and definitely not a pigeon.

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