Five things I have been doing during Los Angeles, Safer at home: Part two-Wild Parrots

Continuing on from part one, the five things I have been doing during Los Angeles, Safer at home, I am going to stay in Pasadena. Today I would like to talk about some Pasadena natives–the Wild Parrots of Los Angeles.

Two: Hearing the daily migration of the wild parrots of Los Angeles

There are some things about Los Angeles that can only be unique to his place. Odd little things like seeing Ron Jeremy and Marilyn Monroe in a bar together, riding the bus with Snow White, and the image of it raining purple flowers in the spring. Something else unique to Los Angeles is its bands of wild parrots.

Since I have been home, I have come to know them. I know exactly what time it is when they come chittering by. It is a strange sound, like a dog angrily going after a new chew toy, high pitched and frantic, without the comic cuteness.

I imagine them leaving every morning from their perches in Pasadena for the beach, picking up orphans along the way. Other birds that owners have discarded. Too big for apartments, too loud for neighbors, just too too. For some reason, people think that parrots and turtles can just be released into the wild when they are too much of a nuisance. I am surprised that there aren’t more packs of purse-sized lap dogs cruising the streets at night. With their matted bows and diamondoid collars with missing stones, ripped up sweaters forming high school cliques, yipping away into the wee hours.

I imagine the Los Angeles parrots a more rough, but accepting crew of birds, who just want a beach day, every day. (I kind of think there is a children’s book here.)

By the time they reach my house it is about 10:30 a.m. and that’s when I know it is time to get up from my desk, stretch, and make myself another cup of coffee. I work most of the day in silence, well as silent as Los Angeles can be during the day. When they return from the beach, they get to my house around 4:30 p.m. That is when I know that I really only have thirty minutes left of work. It is time to slow down, make my to-do list for the next day, check again for responses to emails that never come.

If I wasn’t experiencing Los Angeles, Safer at Home, this was something I would completely miss out on. I have grown to appreciate the wild parrots of Los Angeles, but I know that I am probably alone in this. I couldn’t imagine living in Pasadena next to the trees where they make their beach day plans early in the morning.

Los Angeles can be an odd place. I hope little digressions like these on the blog give you a sense of what it is like to live here. If you want to know more about the Wild Parrots of Los Angeles click this link.

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