Bird update
May. 6th, 2003 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynBased on events of the last five minutes, I can definitely verify that Stupid the Thunkbird is either female or gay. Given that most cases of homosexual behavior in wild birds are generally among waterfowl, greyleg (greylag? I forget which) geese being the most famous example, I am more inclined to believe that Stupid is female. Besides, she went to all the trouble of building a nest, and from what I understand male birds don't generally do that unless they're courting. I haven't seen any other robin with a blackened beak tip sitting on the nest, so I can only assume she built it for herself.
I went outside to examine the nest yesterday; she's been busy, and she's used everything she found, I think. There's a strip of dot-matrix paper edge (with the holes in it) woven in with the sticks and all the rest. Beginning to think that the thunking wasn't a threat display so much as an attempt to get at what looked to her like an ideal nesting site. She seems to have settled for the one in the real world, as she's still around but has not attempted to fly at the window today.
Eggs presumably have not yet been laid, as she has only sat on the nest for a few minutes at a time yesterday and today. I do not intend to examine the nest further as I do not wish to disturb her, but it is perhaps 5-6 feet from my window at most, so I should be able to get a decent view as things progress. Will let you know what comes up.
I went outside to examine the nest yesterday; she's been busy, and she's used everything she found, I think. There's a strip of dot-matrix paper edge (with the holes in it) woven in with the sticks and all the rest. Beginning to think that the thunking wasn't a threat display so much as an attempt to get at what looked to her like an ideal nesting site. She seems to have settled for the one in the real world, as she's still around but has not attempted to fly at the window today.
Eggs presumably have not yet been laid, as she has only sat on the nest for a few minutes at a time yesterday and today. I do not intend to examine the nest further as I do not wish to disturb her, but it is perhaps 5-6 feet from my window at most, so I should be able to get a decent view as things progress. Will let you know what comes up.
