After nearly 4 weeks of monitoring and worrying about the killdeer (Lady Bird) nesting next to Lorraine’s driveway, we are happy to say the faithful mom and her brood have flown the coop. The disappointing part is we didn’t get to see her babies as in just a couple of hours they’re able to sprint like Olympians and indeed they did one evening. We figure they’re growing their flying feathers in the vacant lot nearby where there’s much more protection from the world.
Amazing how a small bird and her hubby persistently set on the nest amidst rumbling garbage trucks, construction equipment (two neighbors were having work done on their houses), curious children, wandering dogs, roaring lawn mowers, and two silly, old ladies peeping at them from behind a blue truck. They even survived an evening of exploding, illegal fireworks just a few yards away from their nest.
I’m sure we were quite entertaining to them as we pulled the very weeds that grow the seeds they like to eat, struggled once a week with a cumbersome trash cart and awkward recycle bins full of stuff they must’ve of thought were quite out of the ordinary, and lumbered by with weird looking tools like shovels and rakes.
I’m sure they’ll miss us. But I’m thinking we’ll miss them more.
