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Life With Ferris: Bluebirds Fledge And Leave Me Bereft Monday, June 28, 2021 - by Ferris Robinson
Ferris Robinson
I’m a birdwatcher. I love to watch the birds, even if I don’t know exactly what I’m watching. My friends Tina and Sam Currin are birdwatchers, too, but they actually can identify most everything they spy, or even hear. That’s my goal. In the meantime I text them blurry pictures of trees with an occasional colorful speck in them and ask them to identify the speck. They usually do.
I’m also a bird landlord of sorts. David and Vivienne Nichols gave me a bluebird house a few years ago, with instructions on how to set it up. We put it in the perfect spot, but no bird paid a bit of attention to it that first spring. The next spring bluebirds claimed it, laid eggs, and babies hatched! But they all died. I don’t know if it was the cold temperatures or the rain or what, but I was devastated. Vivienne comforted me with her own bluebird ups and downs, but I t