Tag Archives: fledglings
Flight
Although summer is barely underway, I’ve already experienced the season’s highlight: fledging. The young finches left their nest box last week, each making its way to the lip, fluttering its wings and then launching itself into space. With varying degrees of loft and aim, they landed in a large juniper shrub a few feet away, […]
Constancy
I am feeling the melancholy weight of human inconstancy: what people say and don’t mean, what they mean and don’t say. Or what they seem to mean earnestly one day but somehow not the next, or say with great conviction, only to soon recant. It feels painful, this dissonance, the shifting sand of what people say […]
Vulnerable
Yesterday’s fledging of four baby robins born beneath my garage eaves was an all-day affair, with the first out of the nest shortly after 6 a.m., and the last still in at 7 p.m. But the straggler appeared gone when I awoke this morning, and I’ve seen Mom feeding two of the youngsters, one perched […]
Fledging
Two weeks out of the egg; 10 minutes into the world. O thou kind Lord! Graciously bestow a pair of heavenly wings unto each of these fledglings … that they may wing their flight through this limitless space and may soar to the heights …. -Baha’i prayer for youth
Meditatio Ephemera 