A beak of fluff

It's like building a nest. First she thinks about it, then she begins to gather the materials, then she begins to put it together.

(Mary) Flannery -O'Connor,
On her mother's two-month process of making a fruit cake. Quoted in Sally Fitzgerald (ed) The Habit of Being (1979).

Busy Mama Sparrow, I suspect this is the nest that benefited from the petty thievery by Papa Sparrow yesterday.


The morning air is a symphony of bird songs, such a joy to be outside bathed in such lyrical spring music.

A mouthful

Tucking in