I mentioned in my previous post that the tempting sound of finches brought Beryl out onto the foredeck. What I did not mention was that David and I decided to leave a bird’s nest in place inside the foresail cover. It had 6 eggs in it–and from the blue green color with brown dots, I ID’d the eggs as likely to be of finches. The parent birds look like some sort of finch. A Google search gave me the insights that we might be rid of our guests by the 1st week of June. However, today’s look into the nest at the fluffy little birds really has me wondering how they’re going to just manage to fly away in 3 weeks. Nah. I’m thinking we’re going to be spending a lot more time dingy sailing in May and June than we’d originally intended.

I joked with David that we’d just go ahead and start sailing with jib, staysail, and main since we often sail with that combination anyway. He questioned whether momma and daddy bird would keep up with us. I suppose there’s a chance they wouldn’t. Thus, we’ll be dingy sailing the local sloughs a bit longer than expected.

Here’s some pics. First, the fluffy little birds in the sail cover. Really there ARE at least 5 that I could count in the nest. In the pic, it looks like a bundle of fluff.

Second pic–David and buddy Beryl sitting in the main saloon while David does something on the computer.