Blue Jays Beat Blogging Hands Down

For some reason, this is by far the most popular page on my web site. I can’t explain it, but I can tell you that a couple of foreign language search engines list it early in their results of a search for “birds.” The image was also being used (bandwidth theft) by an Arabic language web site, though I think I put a stop to that.

Here’s the story behind the photo: I was renting an apartment above a garage a few years ago, and there was a tree just off of my deck/landing at the top of the stairs. I went out of town for a week or so, and when I came back I was surprised to see a bird nest in the tree, within 4 or 5 feet of my deck railing. I’m sure they were surprised to see me, too, but the parents stuck around, the eggs hatched, and I got to see the baby birds grow up. I was even watching when the first one left the nest!