one flew over

So we had this bird nest in our garage. Our nanny first noticed it a few weeks ago, high up on a shelf something like eight, nine feet up, propped on a shelf against a corner, atop of a pack of Costco bulk terry cloth towels. We ' ve had a broken window in the garage for...I don ' t know, probably going on a year now (don ' t judge), and I suppose it was only natural that at some point, a bird might find its way indoors and make itself at home." Whatkind of bird? " a few people at work asked me when I brought it up, but I couldn ' t really say, since I never actually saw anyonein the nest. For all I knew, the nest could have been there for months, and I just never noticed it sitting there, high above my head.However, the nest apparentlydid have an inhabitant, and around Mother ' s Day, she let us know.This also gave me a slightly more specific answer to the " What kind of bird? " question, because at least now I could say, " The kind of bird that lays eggs that look likethat. " The consensus in the anesthesia lounge, both from the build of the nest and the speckling on the eggs, was that these wereCarolina wrens. There were five little eggs tucked in there, the size of those Cadbury chocolate eggs with the candy shells sold around Easter (they ' re what M&Msshould ideally be, in my opinion--better chocolate, thicker shell), and while it certainly made me somewhat monstrous for thinking of this mother bird ' s clutch of eggs in terms of snack food, I ' m sure in the w...
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