29 July 2006

a little birdhouse in my soul

It's amazing the things that I miss when I'm moving too fast in life. Such as? The nest of baby birds underneath our deck. I kept noticing this ever-increasing pile of bird poop under our deck (which is right outside our garage). Then, all of a sudden, it was increasing double-time (or rather triple time) because lo and behold, up I look and there are three baby birds. Not cheeping but looking kind of creepy and still. So I cheeped at them, and apparently, I'm more fluent in baby bird than I ever realized because it set them off. They stuck their little beaks open and started cheep-cheep-cheeping waiting for food. Then I felt guilty and ran inside. They must have gotten fed eventually because the next day they were still all there.

Well, tonight, I only saw one little bird and he was on the edge of the nest. They seem to be too young to fly, but he certainly was sitting precariously close to the edge. To be honest, I'm a little confused about how the bird poop gets outside the nest. Do the little baby birds stick their little bird heinies over the edge to poop? Does the mother bird flick it out? Is that all her poop on the ground and inside the nest is disgusting? Things I will never know.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Karen,

I found you. I googled your sister's maiden name to find her married name to lead me to her blog, which led me to yours. I don't know if your toaddyfroggy email is still good and your bethany email is defunct(I think)... couldn't find you on their website. So I had to find you in cyberspace. Email me at my same old address. We need to catch up and I can't convince Meg to pick up the phone. We have lots of news and she didn't want to call you out of the blue because she thought it'd be weird.

Chris

Anonymous said...

you need to send me the link for the RSS feed for your blog. If you don't know what this is, ask Bill.

Chris