somecows

I feel bad. Yesterday I was looking at my balcony and noticed a small bird coming out of an open carton of tri-poly fortified sanded grout that I had stashed out there, left over from when I was tiling my bathroom. I went to investigate and found that the bird and his/her partner were building a nest. I didn’t do anything. This morning, I checked on things and was amazed by how much progress the birds had made. The nest was almost totally complete, perfect and round like a hollow ball made entirely of leaves and twigs and stuff, with a little hole for a door. It’s amazing that the two birds could construct such a perfect home, and with no arms to help them! At any rate, I was concerned. I didn’t mind the birds nesting on my porch, but I was worried that I would constantly be scaring them, and that they might lay eggs and then abandon them because I have to go water my plants, or something like that. So, tonight I destroyed the nest. I felt really bad, it only took me 2 minutes to dispose of something they took two days to build. I hope it was the right thing to do. I hope they can build another nest before the mother bird lays her eggs.