This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Red-Winged Blackbird
Jun
17
2020
Around here, there are a lot of red-winged blackbirds. They usually look like this:
Fun fact: all the red-winged blackbirds you see are males. The females are a dappled sort of brown and white. I saw one once. I keep looking for more, but the males are all around the pond by the road and the females are nowhere to be seen. Maybe because they blend in better or maybe because they don’t go out and about as much – I don’t know.
And I don’t normally get a good view of them flying, so that side profile is the one I usually imagine if I’m picturing a red-winged blackbird.
For good measure, here is a view of a red-winged blackbird with his wings out.
I do like red-winged blackbirds, and I also like SR-71 blackbirds. So I thought I’d combine the two.
Behold, the red-winged SR-71 blackbird:
I think it never caught on because normally if military planes have any particular colors, they are the colors of their country. In that case, these planes might have been mistaken for being from Spain or Catalonia, or from Liechtenstein 200 years prior.
These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, any kind of black kite
Leviticus 11:13-14
