Robin's Nest

Today, the weather was garbage. The sky was dark grey and we are expecting a major storm. You can feel it’s heaviness all around you in New England, when a storm is hanging right over your head. It is almost as if the grey is collapsing downward on top of you. The humidity is high. Today was actually strangely cold. It was very unseasonal as far as climate conditions go today. Which is extremely frightening, due to the coming collaps of all nature as a result of climate change. Working on a small piece of land outside among the trees, in the open air, on the earth itself, you really do experience the true magnitude of the coming devastation. What is more, working directly with the earth, teaches you how critical the balance is. How everything is connected and dependent on everything else. I suppose, I should have expected a major winter storm in the late spring given the level of collapse we have been forcing this planet into for years. Still, it is almost surprising and it tells me, we are further along toward a terrible end than we realize.

Yet, even as collapse happens, the natural world around us, struggles to create a new homeostasis. A new balance one utilizing our miserable, unnatural contributions to the world. Today, I heard cheeping from above me on the back patio. It surprised me. I expect it in the greenhouse where some baby hatchling chickens currently reside till their new coop can be set up. But I did not expect it from above under the pergola from the forest of wisteria that covers it. But flowers don’t cheep. So what was that sound?

I looked up, and in the wisteria and built right into the pergola I saw a small nest! What I believe is a robin’s nest! Not far from the house. It almost feels alarmingly close for a wild animal to raise it’s young. Yet, there it is. I call Dr. Farmer Moomin, who thank goodness, is upstairs in his office. He snaps these photos. He is able to get a good vantage point. Something I simply can not do at my height.

Now that we have seen them, we worry about their welfare so high up. We worry about one or both falling out during the coming storm. We fear our use of the patio could cause their mother to abandon them. Tomorrow morning the research will begin to learn more about them, and how we can best support them as wild creatures. We wouldn’t wish to change that for them unless they sustained injury and it became necessary for their survival. So we will learn more about them and how they behave in the wild, and what we can do from a step away to offer them any assistance we can so that they thrive.

One thing is certain. They are absolutely adorable. Sights such as this one, fill me with a deep gratitude, to be out here living as I do closer to nature than most people live. Not as close as some for sure, but still closer than most. What a gift it is to experience the natural world around me. Still, it is bitter sweet, as I know these babies have hatched into a world on the precipice, of complete collapse. I will treasure moments like this one for as long as they last. If we don’t change the choices we are making, these baby wild living things, will not live a life on this planet as rich and full as the one their parent’s lived. And that will be entirely our fault. We must do better. We must do better, because these small, helpless creatures depend on us to do better. We may live removed from nature…. But no matter how far we are from it, we remain part of it. We too will experience the same collapse and deterioration of welfare through the few generations this planet will soon allow us before it snuffs out all life, not just us, but beautiful harmless living things like these babies.

Please ask yourself, how you can support their welfare,
No I am not looking for money to support them.
I am asking you instead, to consider your personal choices. Think about them.
Consider their needs and the needs of the future in every decision you make.
Look at your foot print and impact. What can you do to help build a world they can thrive in?
We are our impact. Who do you want to be, for these two wild living things?
Thank you for reading, and supporting these adorable wild creatures by making environmentally friendly decisions.
Amanda of Wildflower Farm