Weaver Birds
Posted By Sika on March 13, 2009
There’s a tree here at Mango Drift that is covered with weaver bird nests and filled with weaver bird trilling. The male weaver birds spend days building nests. If the female birds that strike their fancy find that the nests don’t strike their fancy, the boy birds abandon their nests and start new.
There seem to be two types of nests built right now—brown ones made of twigs and dried up stuff, and green ones made of fresh leaves and the like. Michelle and I were wondering if the girl birds like the green nests as something new and original, or if they prefer what they’re used to.
It’s exhausting, watching the weaver birds. They flit in from their building-material collecting missions and then hang upside down, wings beating furiously to keep the bird aloft. Eventually they head over to another branch to rest for a few seconds, then return to finish their construction and fly away to get more material.
The tree looks really cool with all those nests, but please just cover your eyes when you are watching the birds.
The birds did not go for my eyes even a little. And I stared at them for ages. How’s that for reckless behaviour?