BIRDY BIRDY
Part Nine
Now we are with Fang and Nudge. Nudge is hungry so they go and land in a cave. The cave gets more description than a lot of other things in this book. However I don’t know how old the cave is. I am seriously disappointed in this. How am I supposed to relate to the cave and what’s going on there if I don’t know how old it is?
You know what I just realized? They don’t have anyway of getting in contact with each other. Max said meet me at the north of Lake Mead. But the north end of Lake Mead is HUGE. And they’re in a cave, how is Max supposed to find them in a cave or at all? It’ll take forever for her to find them or them to find her. Since she got shot and all. I mean it’s one thing to say meet me at the north of Lake Mead when you have an already established meeting place that you’ve decided on before hand. If you have no landmark then you might as well just say “Meet me over there... in that direction … at some unspecified time.”
*pokes the plot hole.*
*sticks head through*
I think I can fit an elephant in here.
Maybe three.
Anyway the land in the cave and Fang gives Nudge dried fruit and candy. Gee that house was awfully well stocked for being covered in dust. But still don’t know if they have a can opener or not.
Apparently, also, when the two of them completely landed in the cave they completely missed a bunch of nests that are two feet across and filled with baby birds. Especially birds that are the size of the ferruginous hawk which are the largest raptors in the states. The birds are staring at Nudge and Fang and completely didn’t put up a fuss when they first landed but now Fang is afraid that they’ll attack them now.
Fang disarms them from being hostile by letting them catch the scent of his wings. Because the wild birds are going to relax in the scent of humans right next to their fledglings even if they have wings because they’re still going to smell like humans. Clearly these birds are made of plot contrivance.
Nudge actually is the one who remembers that hey, aren’t they supposed to be looking for Angel (age six) because “she’s like a little sister, like everyone’s little sister.” Why is she telling this to Fang, who lives with Angel and likely sees her like his little sister. And that Max has to come back.
Fang says yeah, she will and then look at how that hawk is flying! Fang decides than instead of comforting his ‘little sister’ about how worried she is about Max and Angel, he’s going to emulate the hawks flying. Which I suppose is kinda okay, in a sense, if he’s not very good at emotional things. But I would have liked to have had some sort of indication of this. Like before he suggested going to mimic the hawks in flight he shifts nervously, uncertain as to how to deal with it.
Nudge goes and joins him... after brushing crumbs off her shirt... and then flying without taking off her shirt... why do I even bother any more?
So she flies with the hawks. Which are completely not scared of them being near the fledglings.
You know, we’ve had our new parakeet for about six months now, maybe a bit longer. He’s still very shy of us and we’ve been handling him since near day one. These are hawks. Wild birds. With young. They’re not going to be allowing any human to go flying with them. They’d be attacking them.
Even ‘tame’ hawks need to be handled with care as they’ll harm their handlers.
The entire reason for this? So that Nudge can angst about how the birds have better parents than she did.
Now we are with Fang and Nudge. Nudge is hungry so they go and land in a cave. The cave gets more description than a lot of other things in this book. However I don’t know how old the cave is. I am seriously disappointed in this. How am I supposed to relate to the cave and what’s going on there if I don’t know how old it is?
You know what I just realized? They don’t have anyway of getting in contact with each other. Max said meet me at the north of Lake Mead. But the north end of Lake Mead is HUGE. And they’re in a cave, how is Max supposed to find them in a cave or at all? It’ll take forever for her to find them or them to find her. Since she got shot and all. I mean it’s one thing to say meet me at the north of Lake Mead when you have an already established meeting place that you’ve decided on before hand. If you have no landmark then you might as well just say “Meet me over there... in that direction … at some unspecified time.”
*pokes the plot hole.*
*sticks head through*
I think I can fit an elephant in here.
Maybe three.
Anyway the land in the cave and Fang gives Nudge dried fruit and candy. Gee that house was awfully well stocked for being covered in dust. But still don’t know if they have a can opener or not.
Apparently, also, when the two of them completely landed in the cave they completely missed a bunch of nests that are two feet across and filled with baby birds. Especially birds that are the size of the ferruginous hawk which are the largest raptors in the states. The birds are staring at Nudge and Fang and completely didn’t put up a fuss when they first landed but now Fang is afraid that they’ll attack them now.
Fang disarms them from being hostile by letting them catch the scent of his wings. Because the wild birds are going to relax in the scent of humans right next to their fledglings even if they have wings because they’re still going to smell like humans. Clearly these birds are made of plot contrivance.
Nudge actually is the one who remembers that hey, aren’t they supposed to be looking for Angel (age six) because “she’s like a little sister, like everyone’s little sister.” Why is she telling this to Fang, who lives with Angel and likely sees her like his little sister. And that Max has to come back.
Fang says yeah, she will and then look at how that hawk is flying! Fang decides than instead of comforting his ‘little sister’ about how worried she is about Max and Angel, he’s going to emulate the hawks flying. Which I suppose is kinda okay, in a sense, if he’s not very good at emotional things. But I would have liked to have had some sort of indication of this. Like before he suggested going to mimic the hawks in flight he shifts nervously, uncertain as to how to deal with it.
Nudge goes and joins him... after brushing crumbs off her shirt... and then flying without taking off her shirt... why do I even bother any more?
So she flies with the hawks. Which are completely not scared of them being near the fledglings.
You know, we’ve had our new parakeet for about six months now, maybe a bit longer. He’s still very shy of us and we’ve been handling him since near day one. These are hawks. Wild birds. With young. They’re not going to be allowing any human to go flying with them. They’d be attacking them.
Even ‘tame’ hawks need to be handled with care as they’ll harm their handlers.
The entire reason for this? So that Nudge can angst about how the birds have better parents than she did.