SAN DIEGO – I was met with what felt like thousands of birds when I arrived at Lindo Lake this week.
There were dozens of great-tailed grackles in nearly every tree, a range of ducks waddling on the shore and paddling in the water and Canada geese parading along the sidewalk. Two hummingbirds tussled in low branches. Other small birds chirped and tweeted across the sky.
Their songs and calls to each other provided the background music for my easy walk around the East County lake. It was such a scene of tranquility – the birds and the gently moving water and the warm sunshine. “I could be a bird,” I thought to myself. Aside from the predators and threats of climate change and other human-made disturbances, this seems like a nice life…