bird-lovers??
I went exploring in a back pasture the other day, taking pictures, and happened upon this really tough, intimidating-looking bush.
The thing had branches coming out of it from everywhere, kind of like a bush trying to be a tree.
As I'm bending over, inspecting it for photographic possibilities, a bird silently swoops out by my ear and sails away without a peep. That's weird. Maybe, I thought to myself, she was sitting on a nest.
I poked in there and, to my surprised delight, it seems there was just enough square footage to allow for one.
By the way, this is me blindly sticking my camera above where I know the nest to be and hoping to get something cool. I wasn't prepared, however, for the two types of eggs in there - the fat speckled ones, and the smaller white ones.
Does it mean another bird took over that particular nest? Does she then have to deal with the other brood - perhaps kill them? Or you could wait and let the speckled vs. the non-speckled hatchlings duke it out in the nest (quite the scene, I would imagine). Not too hard of a guess who would win there: big speckled dino eggs all the way, baby, unless appearances deceive.
Still, strange. Anyone know?
And while I'm thinking about birds, that Nelly Furtado song blipped into my brain: "I'm like a bird, I want to fly away..." My sister and I like taking out one of the nouns that follow: "I don't know where my home is, I don't know where my phone is." We like the idea of Nelly singing so plaintively about her cell phone missing - something, I guess, that I could do at times, but definitely wouldn't set to music.
The thing had branches coming out of it from everywhere, kind of like a bush trying to be a tree.
As I'm bending over, inspecting it for photographic possibilities, a bird silently swoops out by my ear and sails away without a peep. That's weird. Maybe, I thought to myself, she was sitting on a nest.
I poked in there and, to my surprised delight, it seems there was just enough square footage to allow for one.
By the way, this is me blindly sticking my camera above where I know the nest to be and hoping to get something cool. I wasn't prepared, however, for the two types of eggs in there - the fat speckled ones, and the smaller white ones.
Does it mean another bird took over that particular nest? Does she then have to deal with the other brood - perhaps kill them? Or you could wait and let the speckled vs. the non-speckled hatchlings duke it out in the nest (quite the scene, I would imagine). Not too hard of a guess who would win there: big speckled dino eggs all the way, baby, unless appearances deceive.
Still, strange. Anyone know?
And while I'm thinking about birds, that Nelly Furtado song blipped into my brain: "I'm like a bird, I want to fly away..." My sister and I like taking out one of the nouns that follow: "I don't know where my home is, I don't know where my phone is." We like the idea of Nelly singing so plaintively about her cell phone missing - something, I guess, that I could do at times, but definitely wouldn't set to music.