A Nestling At the Door
We heard some screeching during the day on Friday, but we went about our business, thinking it was a bird causing a racket near the chimney, where they are wont to alight for a view of the Central Texas scenery.
We went out on a book-buying journey and returned, opened the front door to fetch the mail, and there at the very door still was the cause of the commotion, a small nestling who shrieked at us and then tilted his head back and opened his gaping yellow jaws demanding nourishment.
It took us a while to figure out what to do, we placed him in a small box and gave him what we determined was suitable little bird food, something we mixed up in a blender. We did not get many books listed, placed the bird in the corner of the yard in a shoe box for the night in the back yard, away from the commotion of the front door.
He was still there come dawn on Saturday, we fed him a little more, and figured out that he belonged in the bushes to one side of the front door, where we placed him carefully. We reckoned that he had somehow had enough strength to leap up the considerable height to climb several stairs to the door earlier, and we had remembered in the interim that we had seen a small bird on the front lawn earlier in the week, though when we came back it had vanished. He must have been around for a while.
He was quite demanding and raised a ruckus about food. Luckily, a couple of birds swept down, seemingly more than mildly interested in the nestling's fate, and hopefully took over the feeding duties as the rightful parents. We heard him squawking outside the office window most of the day, and we see the gray birds flying around from time to time, so we are assuming that all is well with the little fellow. We were not ready to meet the little one's demanding attention, since he was capable of an ear-splitting racket when displeased, and we were not really capable of such parental duties and running a book business.
Here is our humble offering, in acceptable condition for a book, part of a three part set (this is volume two) issued in the mid-70s about the Illuminati. It tied together all the existing conspiracies known at that time into a rather comical set of hopefully fictional events. Click on the picture to find out more details at the My-Lynx Associates website.
We went out on a book-buying journey and returned, opened the front door to fetch the mail, and there at the very door still was the cause of the commotion, a small nestling who shrieked at us and then tilted his head back and opened his gaping yellow jaws demanding nourishment.
It took us a while to figure out what to do, we placed him in a small box and gave him what we determined was suitable little bird food, something we mixed up in a blender. We did not get many books listed, placed the bird in the corner of the yard in a shoe box for the night in the back yard, away from the commotion of the front door.
He was still there come dawn on Saturday, we fed him a little more, and figured out that he belonged in the bushes to one side of the front door, where we placed him carefully. We reckoned that he had somehow had enough strength to leap up the considerable height to climb several stairs to the door earlier, and we had remembered in the interim that we had seen a small bird on the front lawn earlier in the week, though when we came back it had vanished. He must have been around for a while.
He was quite demanding and raised a ruckus about food. Luckily, a couple of birds swept down, seemingly more than mildly interested in the nestling's fate, and hopefully took over the feeding duties as the rightful parents. We heard him squawking outside the office window most of the day, and we see the gray birds flying around from time to time, so we are assuming that all is well with the little fellow. We were not ready to meet the little one's demanding attention, since he was capable of an ear-splitting racket when displeased, and we were not really capable of such parental duties and running a book business.
Here is our humble offering, in acceptable condition for a book, part of a three part set (this is volume two) issued in the mid-70s about the Illuminati. It tied together all the existing conspiracies known at that time into a rather comical set of hopefully fictional events. Click on the picture to find out more details at the My-Lynx Associates website.
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