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A few weeks ago, I had a bird problem. House sparrows were nesting above my
balcony, and a few of the baby birds almost died, so I first had to save them
so they could grow up and fledge away. Once they were gone, I sealed up the
gap underneath the next ceiling to prevent them from nesting there again.
Today, an adolescent sparrow perched on the railing of my balcony. It sat
there for a pretty long time, jerking its little neck around, looking for
either food or danger. There’s no way to know this, but I felt like it was one
of the nestlings that I stuck back up with their brothers and sisters, come
home to see the old place. I know that birds can’t feel nostalgic. At least, I
think I know that, I don’t know for sure. Do they? In all likelihood,
it was a completely unrelated bird who just wanted to be there in that moment.
But perhaps not. Perhaps it could remember my scent (even though I wore
gloves) and knew that I was not a threat to it. I opened the door to see how
close I could get, pretty confident that just the sound of the latch would be
enough to scare it off, but I was wrong. It stuck around, and just watched me.
I shut the door, once again sure that it would be too startled by the noise,
but when I turned back around, it was still there. It might have hopped over a
few centimeters, but other than that, it was totally chill. I sat down at my
little table, and took out my phone to catch up on the headlines. That’s
pretty much all I do, just skim the news stories without reading any of the
stories in depth. If it’s a good headline, it tells you all you need to know,
and if it’s not, the full story probably isn’t worth reading anyway. If it’s a
topic that I’m particularly interested in, then I will tap on it, though. The
bird, meanwhile, stayed there. At one point, I reached behind myself to the
corner where I keep one of my plants, and removed the drip saucer from
underneath. It was totally dry, which probably means that I should water the
plant, even though it looked fine. I set the saucer on the table, and
scooted it away from me, closer to the bird. I don’t know what it’s like to be
a bird, but their legs and feet are so tiny. I would think that they would get
tired of standing on them, and even more tired of perching. I thought maybe it
could rest on its belly in the saucer. It was a stupid idea. It didn’t
understand that that’s what I intended, so it didn’t get in, but that would
have made for a cooler story, wouldn’t it have? There’s really no point to
anything I’m saying. I thought that it was just a nice little innocuous
anecdote to tell you while I’m on my mini-vacation. If you didn’t like it,
maybe my next post will be more interesting. Oh, and speaking of which, I now
have a million subscribers to my blog, so there’s that too. Okay, talk later!
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