There it was. Some kind of bird that resembled a mourning dove but it looked like it had a fluffy white cape over its shoulders. It kept pecking at the grassy area next to the phone pole on Parkway, across the street from the sign for Jane Realty Efficiency Apartments. Two men on the sidewalk passed within two feet of the bird, as oblivious of it as it was of them. They kept walking and talking and it kept pecking the ground. I stayed at the stop sign in my car for awhile, watching, until a car came behind me. Driving home I kept wondering and worrying about the bird. All that white over its shoulders. Could it have been a baby eagle? That’s not so farfetched. Greenbelt is home to an eagle nest, near the 2-lane bridge on Research Road where Beaver Dam Creek flows underneath and beaver had a den years ago. It’s about a mile, as the crow flies, from that phone pole on Parkway
Read more about how Sue and Elaine got the bird going the right way. It’s on the back page in glorious technicolor! http://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/issues/GNR20160121.pdf