What do I do now?
Make A Little Birdhouse In My Soul
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What do I do now?
What's interesting is the knife or pipe tool that's firmly embedded in the stummel of the blast. Oh, never mind, my vision wasn't too good, and I was slightly looking for a PS job....
Specie? Eggs? Though not the right season, I guess.
Specie? Eggs? Though not the right season, I guess.
Well that certainly never happened to me.
I would firstly discard the nest if there are no eggs in there, then remember to close the window. :wink:
I have to say, if I were a bird, that seems like a great place to build a nest though.
I would firstly discard the nest if there are no eggs in there, then remember to close the window. :wink:
I have to say, if I were a bird, that seems like a great place to build a nest though.
Looks like a Carolina Wren nest. Male wrens will sometimes build multiple nests before the pair decides which one to use. So there is a chance that this nest isn't one they are planing to use. Carolina Wrens will nest in all kinds of places. I had one nest in an old boot once.
I love Carolina Wrens. They are round bodied little birds with long pointy bills and are extremely bold and all but land on your shoulder out of shear pluck. So I'm not surprised this one came in the window and set up with the pipes. seldom, thank you for the information about them building multiple nests. They are extremely energetic and this doesn't surprise me. I was going to say that I see most birds are well adjusted to building a new nest because of wind or limb damage that pulls down another. I believe I had at least one brood of Carolina Wrens hatched in and about my carport. We enjoy their company as they go about their work, and they are convivial as birds go. They look us over and have a little conversation and don't seem put off by humans or their activity. We keep the cats inside, but they too enjoy watching the action, though from a somewhat different point of view. I call our bird guide book the cats' menu. My other bird infatuation in the yard are crows. I leave them bread bits and other small treats, and it seems they leave me crows feathers; they may just be shedding but they have been known to leave gifts for benefactors -- extremely smart corvids. I greatly admire the title of this thread, real poetry.
Mso, the thread title comes from the title of a song by one of my favorite bands of the 1980's "They Might Be Giants".
Special Bonus: Look for the nod to pipe smoking.
Special Bonus: Look for the nod to pipe smoking.
Some current thinking is that birds are the living surviving dinosaurs -- they mostly walk on two legs and have other anatomy and physiology in common, or that is the case for them. I had some close observation of albatross (Laysan) on Midway Island, was able to observe the whole process from egg to learning to fly, pairs doing the mating dance ritual, which is also socializing, with three or more birds. They do skid when landing on ground instead of water, and were then dubbed Gooney Birds, but they are the masters of air and sea, and have a wingspan of about six feet. Their nesting areas covered the Navy base, but much more ground too. That island is now completely a wildlife refuge. There may be researchers out there, but I'm not sure there is any permanent party at all, no military, and the attempt at tourism faded, I believe. It's as far from Honolulu as it is from New York to Omaha. It's part of the Hawaiian chain, but truly remote. There've been some serious loss of birds from eating plastic trash they mistake for sea life like squid. I've seen photos of albatross chick and adult remains with the bones arranged around a little pile of plastic trash that plugged their digestive tract.
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