Tall Simon on Nostr: We have a Canada elderberry tree. Each of the past few years, one of our robins (the ...

We have a Canada elderberry tree. Each of the past few years, one of our robins (the 🇨🇦 variant that's a thrush) brings her chicks to the tree, who have usually fledged just in time to eat the berries.

There are always dark purple stains on the rocks in the yard. This year, none on the laundry.

The chicks are silly beasts. One of them this year just froze every time we came over. You can almost see "Mum said to freeze" going through it's bird brain as we walk by, an arm's length away.

Whenever the cardinals show up to the buffet, there's always a big argument.