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While the bus sat at a stop this morning, a bit ahead of schedule, I saw some green birdlife. I've heard that Austin has a flock of wild parrots, but I'd never seen any before. I saw a few streak apple-green through the air, then one sit on a chainlink fence deep in sunflowers. He made nice to a buff-grey bird (which I thought was a mourning dove, but now I wonder if it wasn't a female parrot--are the females less showy as with other bird species?--cause she stayed the whole the time), then he hopped into the sunflowers, which must be beginning to seed, because he starting eating and didn't stop. He was so green! If I was going to be a bird, I'd want to be green.

No one else on the bus even noticed. I was tempted to burst out, "Parrot!" but my usual reticence prevented me.

Sometimes I very much appreciate how not having a car allows me a more leisurly pace of life than my wheeled fellow humans appear to enjoy. (Sometimes, of course, I do not.)