So when we started seeing this white-headed robin hanging around the house, of course, I sent the e-mail saying "hey have you ever seen a robin with a white head before?" and sure enough, the minute his shift with the ferry service ended, he was banging on my door and yelling for binoculars, and as it happened the robin obligingly showed up in the yard that very moment.
My camera is lousy at zoom, so the pic is fuzzy, but you get the drift:
This is the result, apparently, of a rare condition called leucism, which is a lack of pigment in some cells. It's the weirdest damn thing.
My stepfather was very excited. He's probably called all his birdy friends and by this time tomorrow there will be a couple dozen of them milling around the edge of the property - you know how they are.
Wasn't there a movie about this recently...?
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