For the past several days, a little (baby?) bird comes at dusk to sleep in a little corner just outside our kitchen door. He leaves again at sunrise.
So here we are, very aware and concerned for the bird. Every time we need to get out that door we have to pay special attention not to scare him. Sometimes we even go around the front door so as not to disturbe our feathered friend. Is he too young to build himself a nest on one of the many neighboring trees? Is he an outcast? It doesn't matter, now we care about him. Maybe he just wants to be friends with our baby.
I should have kept my mouth shut. For the last three nights the bird hasn't come home. We don't know whether something happened to him, or he just felt it was time to move on. :(