i don't think of myself as a bird person, exactly, but there are a surprising number of posts on here involving birds. nests, eggs, baby birds,library chickens, empty lot roosters, hawks, and of course that little dead pigeon maya had to pick up off the sidewalk. at the park for the second time today, miles and friend being loud and obnoxious, pit bulls frolicking on the field, the smell of weed drifting over pleasantly from a group of teenage dudes maya whisper screamed "come here!" with an excitement that seemed too much to be real. "it's a bird in a nest!!!" and there it was. a little nest tucked into a straggly honeysuckle vine about four feet off the ground, with a small mama bird and her loud peeping featherless baby with beak open wide. i hope we did not scare her too much, but i had to lift the kids up to take a peek and i just had to take a picture. the mama stayed in the nest and just kinda looked at us. if you look closely it appears that this urban bird has used some of the abundant local materials--garbage--to construct her home.
maya remarked that usually birds build their nests in trees, but now we know that that is not always the case. buena suerte, pajaros.
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