My Favorite Paris Bird

It's a Merle Noire:

the European blackbird.

It is a thrush.

So is the American Robin.

That may be why it looks just like a black robin.

And, when it is across the Seine from your fourth story apartment, in a tree on the river, and it starts singing at just before daybreak, and wakes you up, you go back to another day and another time.

I took this picture on the Seine on 8 November 2016, a day that will live in infamy.