Those eggs are darling - I hope they successfully hatch! Rosanne J Centennial
On Monday, June 1, 2020 at 9:14:19 PM UTC-6, Jared Del Rosso wrote: > > Indulge me. > > Tonight, after eating a salad from the garden (in west Centennial), I > found a few green caterpillars on my counter (White Cabbage, perhaps?). I > brought those out to my chickens then went to my spinach to look for more > on the holey spinach leaves. At the edge of my vision, something flushed. I > figured a small rabbit, but instead spotted a female Spotted Towhee > wandering nearby and calling. Looking up, I spotted the bird's nest. It's > just past my yard, in my neighbors, in a small space between her lattice > and my garden box. A page of a Sunday edition of the *New York Times* frames > it. (I used the pages of the paper to keep my volunteer lettuce alive amid > the early spring freezes.) > > It's a rather pretty nest. I like to think my piles of yard waste helped > it along. It's woven, rather intricately, of what seem to be dead grasses. > Three small, brown eggs are tucked neatly inside. No sign of a cowbird egg > in there (yet), though a female was skulking around my yard today. > > [image: IMG_20200601_190218829.jpg] > > There appear to be two hyper-local pairs of Spotted Towhee, one that > spends much of the day in my yard and another that spends much of the day > in the neighbors. Don't know which of those pairs this reflects. > > This finding felt like pure magic. Here's to a successful nest. > > - Jared Del Rosso > Centennial, CO > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/f57dd8d7-efe9-47ae-91d4-46dbc6412d87%40googlegroups.com.
