Tag: nest
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July 2, 2019
In a bush in front of my dining room window there is a cardinal nest. I can see the mother’s tail feathers as I type these words. The father cardinal (brilliant and self-important) flies in periodically to check on things. I’ve set up my workstation at the dining room table so I can watch the…
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April 17, 2018
Not far from my house there is a very small tree with a very small nest high in its branches. Every time I walk past this tree, I think the same thing: let me be brave enough to build something. And then I think: let me be strong enough to stand and hold something small…
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June 4, 2015
There’s an old light fixture attached to the back of my house, way up high, underneath the eaves, and every spring that I’ve lived here, a robin has built a nest on top of the fixture, and every year I feel lucky that it is happening again. In the morning, I go outside and look…
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May 27, 2014
I’ve got a robin who built a nest on top of a broken light fixture at the back of my house. Every time I step out the door, I look up at her and she looks down at me. The robin’s look is a look of great intention. It is like she is saying, “I…