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Birds Requisition Mailbox For A Temporary Home

Kati Moses rearranged a few branches she had attached to the back of her newspaper bin beside the mailbox. Moving around to peer inside, she made sure shade covered the little birds hatched in a nest in back. The midsummer heat on July 17 reached above 90 degrees, but the tiny beaks jutting up from a jumble of straw nevertheless waited impatiently for food.

The mailman also presented a problem for the oblivious babies in the bin.

“[The mailman] kept putting [newspapers] in the box,” Kati’s mother Anna Moses said. Kati began posting “bird reports” to help keep them safe and to finally announce: “They hatched!”

The nest sat quietly for two weeks before the birds emerged, said Ms Moses, then they saw movements.

“The parents hover overhead when Kati peeks,” she said. She also noted the parents’ frequent flights in and out again as they feed their babies.

Of the three or four birds that hatched, one did not make it, Ms Moses said. When they found the little bird on the ground outside their mailbox, they buried it in the yard.

“The mom rejected it for one reason or another,” she said.

They think that the little bundles were bluebirds. The young birds have already taken flight from the mailbox for the great outdoors.

“Our mailbox babies successfully took off on wing just a few days ago. We now have a new nest, robins, I believe, under our deck behind the house,” Ms Moses said.