The Fledgling
The birdhouse in my backyard has been growing gradually louder and louder. I've been watching all the activity of the adults flying back and forth. A day ago I noticed a small head poking out. Sure looks almost as large as the adults I thought to myself.
Hey dudes where's the food:
I said where's the food?!?:
Fledgling contemplating, "Geezus it's getting awfully hot in here. Must I do everything myself?!?"
The next morning it seemed strangely quiet around the backyard. I noticed an odd decoration on the birdhouse door.
All you can eat buffet closed sign:
I saw a pair of adult birds out in the yard. I can almost imagine the conversation.
"What an exhausting trial by fire."
"Our first fledgling how glorious."
Male chirping, "Oh thank God and Greyhound they're gone..."
"Oh, your going to miss the little one, I just know it."
Pictures were taken by me with my Samsung Galaxy S22. Fictional story and any resemblance to actual birds is purely coincidental.
Very beautifully written and the bird is also very beautiful and it seems that the bird is very thirsty or hungry
Thank you. The birds are a lot of fun to watch, photograph and write about.
Did you keep the bird on purpose behind the house? or is it just an ordinary wild bird
I just put up the birdhouse and they decided to move in. They come and go as they please.
Bird value their house much more their life at times because it is in their house they breed their younger ones
I'll need to clean the birdhouse out some time before next season. They seem to like that a bit better so they can start with a fresh area.
I like your fledgling story and photos.
I remember years back when I lived in an apartment, a bird had made a nest on my balcony on top of a post. I knew they were there, but one day I heard the most tweeting and tweeting and I went to the back door window and looked out. There was a baby on the ledge and two on the balcony floor and the mother had flown back and forth from the balcony to the trees behind the building a few times and was calling to them. I stood and watched for the longest time as the babies began to get the message and one by one, flew up into the trees with their Mom... and then they were gone and all was silent. That was pretty neat to watch.
Birds are really fascinating to me to watch. I don't understand all the behaviors but it is fun to think about why they do the things they do. They are generally pretty easy to get along with as neighbors unless a large group of vultures decides to move into your tree or something, lol.
I am semi rural, on the edge of what use to be a big farm and so there is lots of bird activity. There are several hawks, a few large and a few smaller ones and when they are near, everybody else scatters ! Sometimes one sits on my back fence, facing the field and sometimes I see a large one sitting on the fence across the front road at the edge of the horse pasture. So far, I have never actually witnessed one take another bird or rodent down, but there is a bunny that lives under the bushes at my back fence and one day it "appeared" to be a mature hawk and a young hawk and I thought the older one was trying to show the young one the ropes. They were camping out in some trees beside my yard and I was just sure "bunny" was going to be their lunch, but a few weeks later, I saw bunny again and was kind of happy that it had not been a victim.
There are a lot of hawks and eagles around here. I've seen the results of their hunting a few times. Once a big eagle (or maybe large hawk?) got a rat from the backyard. I was really surprised to see it sitting on the backyard furniture, I did not think it was a clear enough area for a bird that large to get in and out easily.
I love how they can sense food is on the way and they get so hysterically loud lol.
Boy howdy. Enough to wake you up if the window is open, lol. (I have a lot of fun hearing them though.)
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Interesting story really fun
Thank you. It has been awhile since the birds were using the house and it is a good time for me to clean it out now.