Prose
Three Days at the Cup: Male Finch Breaks Protocol
The clutch has held at five throughout this stretch — five pale eggs resting in the woven cup while outside the sunroom windows, May advances. What has changed, and changed …
Nest Relief, Male Intrusion, and the Steady Five-Egg Vigil
The old bookshelf camera logged its final useful frames on the evening of April 28, handing off to the Reolink as the female settled in for the night. That transition — both …
Three Days Watching a House Finch Through Early Incubation
The nest sits inside the house, tucked in a cup of dried grass on a bookshelf in the sunroom — a domestic situation, yet governed entirely by wild rhythms. Three days of …