See a good bird

I spent a long time today not sure what I wanted to write about, so I went for a walk. On that walk, I saw a new kind of bird. I'm not sure exactly what kind it was — there were a few of them, and they were clustered in the shade, and I couldn't quite make out their coloring. None of the options in Merlin looked right, so I tried to get a little closer, and then they all flew away to another tree.But, suddenly, I was happy— and I realized I should write about how I argued with my partner for years about whether or not I like birds.The argument about it started in Hawai'i. A few years ago my partner and I took a last minute vacation to Waikiki — plans with other people had fallen through, but since we had the time and the budget already picked out we thought, why not go somewhere else? We picked Hawai'i because it was winter, and we wanted to go somewhere warm, and a friend of ours had gone recently, and it's pretty close to where we lived in California at the time, and it seemed easy.…