Bonafide Farm » nestling http://bonafidefarm.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:38:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Let’s take a break from the chicks http://bonafidefarm.com/2013/07/11/lets-take-a-break-from-the-chicks/ http://bonafidefarm.com/2013/07/11/lets-take-a-break-from-the-chicks/#comments Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:33:39 +0000 Bonafide Farmer http://bonafidefarm.com/?p=4238 I’m getting tired of writing about chicks, and you’re probably tired of reading about them. So let’s investigate this totally uninteresting gas tank, which sits by my chimney and powers my stove.

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Hark, what’s this?

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Let’s lift the lid and see.

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Gah! More chicks! They’re everywhere!

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These are little wren babies. The gig was up today when I saw their parent fly out of the tank. So many chicks, all over the place. I’m going crazy, hearing peeping noises inside my head. Yesterday the most recently fledged bluebirds were all in the birdbath with their dad, and I saw him up in the oak tree feeding one a worm. Another male bluebird keeps investigating the wellhouse eaves, which were only recently vacated by this spring’s starling fledglings, looking for a place to nest. And you thought we could take a break from chicks! It’s high summer in Virginia, and new life is inescapable.

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