Nests!

 The summer season is indeed special. For many reasons, as we noted yesterday. Today a little note on the cute little birdies and their simply superb nests that make the summer a unique season. 

We have a small little garden in the backyard and the front yard of  our home. Every year, birds build their nests in the trees. Unique they are. Yesterday I found one which is as beautiful as that by the weaver bird. 

It is roundish, not conical. It hence cannot be that by the weaver bird. It is equally artistic though. This birdie, too, has actually managed to stitch, yes, you read it right, the edges to give it a round shape.

To cushion the sticks that make the base between two drying leaves, the brilliant bird has actually made a comfy, fluffy bed of cotton for the eggs and the female who would hatch them. 

Each year I find such wonderful artifacts. I keep them on the side wall, and the economically efficient beings that birds are, they re-cycle whichever elements they need while (re-)building the nests each summer! 

The nests are neat, moreover, and functionally most effective rather than merely attractive. If you were to see these tiny birds, they would be smaller than my fist, tops, the spread palm. What marvels though their nests are! And mankind chooses to call itself intelligent, evolved, and superior! 

Pratima@ Once an unusually beautiful blue bird had built a nest in our garden. The nest had unbelievably blue eggs. The nest was not particularly well hidden. The three of us used to literally stand guard as a big bad bird was hell bent on attacking it. One very early morning, it did manage to destroy the eggs. I still remember the genuine grief I then felt. I was yet to know then the casual cruelty many enjoy in de-structuring, de-centering innocent lives. And such call themselves human! 

Quote of the day:                                                            Leonardo da Vinci says of a nest, "bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang". 

Word of the day: craftsmanship                               Craftsmanship is the skill used by somebody to make something of high quality with his/her hands, or the small, little beak!!!