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Rain Gryphon ([personal profile] rain_gryphon) wrote2021-06-27 12:28 am
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Dead Nestling

I found a dead nestling earlier, looking at the mess of cornstalk debris. I'm not sure what he was. He was at that awkward age where it's hard to tell the species. Pretty sure he wasn't a Sparrow, pretty sure he wasn't a Robin, but that's about it. I'd have guessed Starling, and I know there's an active nest in the tree by where I found him too, but they're cavity dwellers, and don't often fall. He apparently came out during the storm, and landed in the water. I checked, but didn't find a crashed nest, so apparently just the one casualty.

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