I feed the pigeons I sometimes feed the sparrows too/it gives me a sense of enormous well being/and then I'm happy for the rest of the day/safe in the knowledge there will always be a bit of my heart devoted to it

Ducks in Washington Square Park

Maybe they've always been here, but this is the first time I've seen these two unlikely fowl. It's hard to understand how they got here, as the park is some distance away from the lakefront and even farther from the river. Or perhaps they've always been here, in hiding from the many lhasa apsos (and their owners) who frequent this little corner of the city.