Well, I’m awake now. So is China.

I was out working in the yard, and I went into the tool shed to get a particular implement of destruction. The shed has shelves with attachments on the front that you can hang tools from.

On the shelf behind my desired thingy was a wad of dried-up yard stuff, which looked like it might have been removed from under a lawnmower or something. But on a shelf?? I gave it the fishy eye, decided it was unlikely to house wasps, and gingerly reached for my tool. Whereupon, out from the wad of debris jetted a bird, so fast I couldn’t even tell what color it was. It exited through a space at the back of the shed where one of the doors is loose (apparently the way it had been getting in there all along).

So now I’m concerned that, between my inadvertently getting too close to the nest, and the wake-the-dead squawk I made when the bird zoomed out, I might have scared a mama bird away from her eggs. Is it still hatching season?

Sure would be cool to set up a webcam for Bird Watch ‘06.