Birds in the Neighborhood

The Victory Gardens by my apartment. People without their own yards can rent garden lots and exercise their green thumbs.
The first goslings have finally arrived! I guess the geese usually have more than one gosling at a time, and they are usually out earlier in the season. I wonder what's going on...

The starlings were brown in the fall, but now they're black with brown flecks. Several roost in the air shaft outside my windows, and Billy loves to watch them.

Billy also loves watching pigeons. They make a low, guttural noise that must sound romantic to other pigeons. In the early morning, it's like Wild Kingdom right outside my windows, with birds flying in and out. Billy is not understimulated.
The show's over for the flowering trees; almost all of the petals have fallen off. What remains is green leaves, which are lovely, except compared to the flowers. I never thought I'd see lush green leafy trees as plain. However, that sentiment is already fading, and I can appreciate the brief flowering time, then start to see the leaves as terrific, too. Suddenly, there's shade where there wasn't before. And now other flowers and bushes are starting to bloom.

I guess these geese are still waiting for their goslings.