Pigeons Can't See Their Own Backs

So they have no idea how beautiful they are

Photo Credit — Lewis Hulbert / Wikimedia Commons

I had walked over to a neighbor’s to get his keys. I’ll be feeding his cats while he’s out of town this weekend and on the walk home, through Central Park in a light rain, I watched a particularly beautiful pigeon pecking around in the grass.

The feathers on this pigeon’s back formed an iridescent stained g…