Abergailia: Lessons from a momma bird

My momma bird story..

It all began about 2 months ago while on my daily early morning walk...

For me my walking time is a time to contemplate, to reflect, to think about my goals in life and art.

So here I am at the last stretch of my 2 miles, (love this spot on my journey home) I embark upon huge tree's that arch their way over the sidewalk to intermingle with the tree's on the other side while providing a much needed break from the intensity of the sun we so often experience here in Arizona.

I'm walking along, deep in thought and all of a sudden a BIG black bird comes swooping by my right shoulder and crosses inches from my face. She scarred the DICKENS outta me!

I always looked around for any signs of a nest but never found one.

This momma bird has attempted to scare the bijeezes out of me on more than one occasion in fact on our third meet and greet she swooped in behind me and literally whacked me on my shoulder with her massive wing

Needless to say she got me,

she got me good.

I'm sure all the early morning risers got a good chuckle from the whole shabang!

I wasn't about to let a bird tell me what to do and where to walk so I began walking backwards at that lil stretch of nature just so she knew, that I knew, you know!

After this whole charades has been playing out over the course of two months this is what I came across this morning.

This tiny lil black baby bird was exhausted, confused and had no idea how to fly, how to find it's momma, how to even feed him/herself. When I picked him/her up he/she just collapsed into my hands. This baby bird was a lil ways from the spot I always get "a good talkin to" by momma bird so I began walking towards the huge tree's and spot this perfect lil nest just laying in plain site .