Typical Avalon Street lined with golf carts
We had a relaxing start to the day as Leo recovered from his race. Our room is on the second floor up a narrow, steep stairwell, and it was intensely amusing to me (though not at all to Leo) to watch him hobble up and down the stairs.
In the afternoon, I promised Leo I could show him a new bird he had never seen before, so we very slowly retraced my previous day's route to the botanic garden.
Halfway up is a subdivision called Bird Park, after an aviary built by the Wriggleys that once held exotic birds.
Across from the old aviary was a house that brought to mind another retirement town, Bisbee, Arizona:
The sculpture is made of animal skeletons (bison?)
And here we found the Bird of the Day:
The spotted dove, native to South Asia, escaped and formerly common in the Los Angeles area, but now declining, though still thriving on Catalina Island.
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