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At 8:30 last night, Neighbor Jack texted to say he had two babies and an adult in his yard again. They were in the same oak tree they’d been in on Wednesday. About five minutes later, Jack says, the adult took off to the west, and seconds later the babies followed. So what we can…

Here’s the kids. They ruminated about this jump, which is facing south-west, for about an hour. They decided no, then they moved to another branch and took a little nap, and then they came back and thought some more. Just about then, wonderful Neighbor Jack discovered I was still lurking in his yard and came…

I found one baby at 6:30pm yesterday. But Daphne was the real star, reminding me once again how magical camouflage is. Also, it’s nice to have nice neighbors.

Here’s a map of the fledging story for the year, as it relates to my house. Yellow star is the nest. Numbers are days starting April 25, when Scooby left the nest.

Thanks to my lovely neighbor Jack, I strongly suspected that the babies had moved west overnight. And indeed at sunset I found them both in a tree in Jack’s yard, squeaking away at their mom, who was hanging out down lower with the humans. What you have to understand here is that Jack lives on…

Half-and-half featherBaby gray and adult brownChildhood: grown and lost. 5/7/23