JIM CONRAD’S NATURALIST NEWSLETTER
Written and issued beside the woods near
Natchez, Mississippi
July 28, 2008
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WREN THUD
It’s that time of year when one of the most agreeable
things you can do is to sit on your porch with a pair
of binoculars watching parent birds deal with their
adolescent fledglings. I’ve never experienced raising
human kids myself so maybe I have it all figured out
wrong but what I see these days going on between bird
parents and their kids strikes me as hilariously
similar to what I witness among many human families
with teenagers.
