My part of the U is housed in a building that was, originally, an elementary school.
The U has owned the building for a long time. Back in the early '70s, when I was an undergraduate, the building housed psychology grad students. A requirement of my psychology degree was that I be a guinea pig in psychology grad student experiments.
I came to the Perry Building as a guinea pig at least once (maybe twice?). Back in those days it still had a lot of elementary-school infrastructure -- little-kid-sized drinking fountains and toilets, for a couple of examples.
In the late '90s, the motivation and funding were found to completely renovate the building. They took it down to the brick walls, and redid the entire interior (suiting it to adults, this time around). They did a wonderful job. It's a beautiful building.
(digression -- Because the building is elderly (for this part of the world!) and has a historical designation, they were required to put in windows that open. The windows are huge -- 4' x 8', maybe? I should measure, sometime, so I know how big they are. SO glad to have windows, and SOOOO glad they open! -- end of digression)
I don't suppose anyone remembers why this was in the building. There is an excellent room at the top of the turret on the east end of the building, which is where this is displayed.
I am hardly ever in that part of the building, but I was over there on the 16th, so I wandered up in to the turret room..............
Walking home at the end of the day.
Ann Arbor has lots of brew pubs. It was the sun in the windows that caught my eye.
This bird's high shoulders and long pointy tail are what led me to make this identification.
Mourning dove, with jet trails.
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2 comments:
I'm proud of you for making the identification. :D You know how I've gotten to be about doves. ;)
I *think* mourning doves stick around here all year long, but am not sure. I see them all the time in summer (and hear them), but not so much in winter.
They really do have a different shape from the rest of the birds around here.... Makes that ID a lot easier. :-)
I don't think we have other doves. Except pigeons, of course. Lots of pigeons downtown, but I never see them in my neighborhood (which is only a mile from downtown)......
I wonder how many different doves there are. When we were in the Bahamas, two years ago, we saw some big ones, in Nassau, and some teeny ones at the beach on the private little island owned by the cruise line.....
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