Avian Toddlers

Today marks my first sighting of the year for baby birds crouched on the railing of my deck, fluffed wide and fat, beaks open, begging for food. Between the new down and the ruffling of its feathers, this little house sparrow takes up twice the space of its mother.

Like a human toddler that crawls and then pulls itself up, the baby sparrow is mobile, but clumsy. To reach its current position, a couple of feet away from the Yankee Flipper squirrel-proof bird feeder, the stubby avian baby must fly a short distance.

As I watch the drab female sparrow dash between the feeder and the railing, filling her baby's beak in the dappled shade that the pin oak paints the deck, something wonderful fills me up, too.

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