A nice surprise…
As you may remember, SFRevu and Gumshoe Review go live on June 1st so things are a bit crazy in my dining room office right now. I’ve got several reviews to write up, even more to proof, several to coerce Paul into writing, the cover images to make up, and of course pinging the other reviewers for their material. Amidst all this chaos, I remembered I’d had a total brain freeze — I didn’t get any interviews for either zine this month. Mea culpa — I’ve would have beaten my head on the dining room table but the migraines have taken care of that anyway.
Anyway, in the midst of my despair I was making another cup of coffee and looking out the kitchen window, which is on the second floor, and there was a movement in the trees straight out from the window. In a small opening in the leaves there was a bird’s nest. I looked and squinted and — yes, there was a bird on the nest.
The thing is that you can only see the nest and the bird from the kitchen window. The way the tree is set and the branches around the area from our deck and from the yard you can’t see the nest at all. I tried various locations, hoping to get a better picture than through our kitchen window. But no luck, so back to the kitchen. I took the photo paired with this post. It’s with the telephoto lens through a window (not a very clean one….shrug) but it came out pretty good. I don’t know what kind of bird it is. I’m not good with birds especially at a distance through a telephoto lens on a nest. If anyone knows what it is, please let me know.
I still feel awful about dropping the ball on the author interviews but life goes on — as this little mother bird so aptly embodies. Today, as I looked late this afternoon, she seemed a bit nervous or fidgety — kept moving and then looking down and poking below her and then resettling. Wonder when the eggs are going to hatch. Since I don’t know how long she’d been there before I noticed her I have no idea.
I love living in the country — life if all around.