Saturday, June 21, 2008

harold & maude move in




harold and maude have decided to move into my place.

specifically in the rafters of my car port.

i woke up one day hearing the cooing of doves through the window. i knew that if it was persistent, then that means they're trying to nest!

i went to see the rafters and bingo! there they are!

however, they had a realllllly difficult time creating the nest because the beam that they're trying to build the nest is made of two 2x4s with a 2 inch (i think) gap, so when they laid some twigs on there, eventually, the twigs would just fall through or blow over the side....

so after a day of trying, the doves disappeared... so i wasn't planning on posting this up... but then i found a small piece of wood that i was able to lay on top of the two beams so it's easy to build upon.

one day later.... more cooing in the morning!

i got up and went over to the nest area... and voila! a nest! and ONE GIANT BLADE OF GRASS! i didn't realize how strong those doves can be by flying around carrying a giant blade! obviously they couldn't fit it into the nest area so it's STILL hanging there (and it's been almost a week?) weird!

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