rare and beautiful birds (homesick)
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Tokyo, 2010.04.14
As I stood looking out the window and munching on my lunch of brown rice, I noticed three gorgeous birds. They made me momentarily homesick.
Because they were bluejays! Well at first glance they looked like the popular Winter-seasonal birds native to the part of the world where I was born. They are certainly a dusty blue in colour, especially along their long tails. But they've got a distinctly round head with a cap of black feathers. A quick search on the Internet came up with nothing but I'm pretty sure that they're corvids of some kind.
Anyway, a very welcome addition to the usual collection of crows, rock pigeons, and the odd sparrow.