Only kidding. It’s so cold and rainy outside that I spent most of it sitting in a comfortable chair playing games and some of it creating imaginary birds with Photoshop from my archive of bird images.
![Parti-colored Starling greenbelted](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-maLCxkNIduQ/WKDp8ti4VkI/AAAAAAAAGAo/Sa6fT-JH9u8PlgDUi09Mu2aUMVsha2GlgCLcB/s1600/greenbelted.jpg)
![Parti-colored Starling reallylast%2Bpinkwing](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JG6lyFhcAC0/WKDqU9kQZeI/AAAAAAAAGAw/6tyGPs7_xa08ue8ql5zhcOV3zyC--4jfACLcB/s1600/reallylast%2Bpinkwing.jpg)
![Parti-colored Starling robinbluebreast](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fRbMqH0KGZE/WKDqm2FfagI/AAAAAAAAGA4/xEW1M22GZHEA5O0qz6iztt92SIhqJxGJACLcB/s1600/robinbluebreast.jpg)
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.
And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad,-
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head
Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home
Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, splashless, as they swim.
And this is what the birds above really look like:
![Parti-colored Starling starling](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z36J9n5cED0/WKDrhA-TZ9I/AAAAAAAAGBA/MjfGXXNZpfEvu3qviiKn3ckPLNM_jDo2wCLcB/s1600/starling.jpg)
![Parti-colored Starling 1](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vJjKgCKhsNs/WKDrwrHhBvI/AAAAAAAAGBE/7ScuLdyiPzUxvpLPZJ_srCunYvZBJpxoQCLcB/s1600/1.jpg)
![Parti-colored Starling mocker1](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gEcAWUF7LSU/WKDr5TF4WSI/AAAAAAAAGBM/0Fax_LN2mfEQzM9ogQ26jFceXr-RJ8dKwCLcB/s1600/mocker1.jpg)
![Parti-colored Starling DSC 0005](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MD00thF3lcI/WKDsDxFpxWI/AAAAAAAAGBQ/B7TOOO888bcNIJuAyDQnv5dZppj0Sc6xACLcB/s1600/DSC_0005.jpg)
![Parti-colored Starling Julie Feinstein](https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/JulieFeinstein-e1336328755923.jpg)
Julie Feinstein
I am a Collection Manager at the American Museum of Natural History, an author, and a photographer. I live in New York City. I recently published my first popular science book, Field Guide to Urban Wildlife, an illustrated collection of natural history essays about common animals. I update my blog, Urban Wildlife Guide, every Sunday.
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