I always figured we were born to fly

"" All my life,' she said."I've been so busy running from Beethoven to Bach to Brahms, I never noticed I was twenty-nine. next time I looked up I was forty. Yesterday, seventy-one. Oh, there were men: but they'd given up
singing at ten and given up flying when they were twelve. I always figured we were born to fly...,"

from The Day It Rained Forever
by Ray Bradbury

Thursday on the Big Slough - Black Terns (immatures)

"Don’t think just now of the trudging forward of thought,

But of the wing-drive of unquestioning affirmation.

It’s summer, you never saw such a blue sky,

And here they are, those white birds with quick wings,

Sweeping over the waves, chattering and plunging,

Their thin beaks snapping, their hard eyes

Happy as little nails"

from Terns

by Mary Oliver

Thursday we saw lots of immature terns, it was when we saw 

the adult reading the riot act, we realized they were Black Terns.