Nest

There are no birds in last year's nest.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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So, I had this photo of the nest.  Then I was looking for a quote to go with it.  I found this quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from the poem, "It is Not Always May."

Then I started thinking about cowbirds.  And I thought I remembered that they lived in other birds' nests and maybe their nests from previous years.  So I did a little checking.  What cowbirds and maybe cuckoos and other creatures do is called brood parasitism or maybe kleptoparasitism.

Kleptoparasitism.  That sounds like a really, really bad thing to do.  Klepto is bad and being a parasite has pretty negative connotations, too.  I hadn't heard of this before.  How awesome.  And disturbing.

(pause)

Sometimes I start these blogs and am just not sure where to go with them.  So I leave them for a while and then come back and try to find something to do with them.  Sometimes something more comes to me.  Sometimes not.  Sometimes I just post them like this.