Feb 27, 2009: Bed of Nails
 

No, not the skinny Hindu in a diaper and turban type bed of nails.

This guy noticed a bunch of steel, bang with a hammer type, nails in the corner of his porch.
The next thing he knows, a bird has added a few twigs to the nails, and made a bed which she's sitting on.

http://cellar.org/2009/nails1.jpg

She must have been good in bed because next there's eggs... then chicklets.

http://cellar.org/2009/nails2.jpg

The bed of nails was productive.

What a considerate mother bird.
Built-in toothpicks to take care of those stringy pieces that get stuck between my teeth after the barbecue.

Wow newtimer. quick to the draw!

Bird's got long nails.

Shish ka-squab!

And the babies' names are Rusty and Patina.


And here's how it all happened.

First, too many screwdrivers. Then she got hammered.
Then she got nailed.

Eggcellent. ;)

Or would that be REproductive? Sorry...couldn't resist.

Quite right, I stand corrected. :D

I can't wait til this is ova.

Bed of (s)nails anyone? :)

This indicates that in this bird's surroundings, nails are more easily got than twigs.

Omelette y'all get away with these puns.

http://cellar.org/2009/nest.jpg

Katkeeper offers this artist's eerily-correct rendition of a nest. What's the medium, K?

It is stone, steel and the eggs are enamel on fine silver (.999 pure silver). A similar nest by the same artist is on the Enamelist Society brochure. I think I need to send her the url so that she can see a bird has copied her!

And sue the damn thing for breach of copyright. Damn freeloading animals, we should break all their legs.