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Looks to me like Dan wearing sunglasses looking over his left shoulder which has a pigeon sitting on it.
That's exactly what it is. Last year I found a juvenile pigeon standing on the sidewalk next to a building. It was hiding under a parked car and I knew it would not survive the night, so I caught it using my chicken herding skills that I learned as a kid. I built a cage for it in the back yard, and fed it until it was strong enough to fly. When it started exersizing it's wings, I started leaving the cage door open and it came and went as it pleased for a few weeks and then it's returns were fewer and fewer. It finally never returned so I am hoping that it found a flock to join. That picture is last August right before it could fly. So I was able to get the shot before it flew away. I liked the pigeon more than it liked me. It would wing slap me whenever I would reach into the cage to refill the seed and water tray. So it was too wild to try and make a pet out of. It's better off free.
I wish they had those forums when I was a kid. We found some baby red-tail hawks near their dead mother. We put them in an old rabbit hutch full of straw and tried feeding them, of all things, hot dogs. Needless to say, they didn't make it. I guess we should have tried the kosher hot dogs?
I was 10 and it was the 70's. The enviroment was still a place to throw plastic bottles and toxic waste was put in the county landfill. We were ahead of the trend.