Today I checked back on my two bird friends who were building a nest in my backyard. They were as busy as ever. I wanted to see them closer so I got my binoculars and then looked at them for a long time. They were a beautiful sight. I happened to catch them gathering berries, so there was this male with a red breast and with a red berry in it's mouth. It was flaying around the whole backyard. The cove of trees in the four surrounding backyards seems to provide these birds a nice and cozy habitat. I wondered why can't we be like birds, they just take what is necessary from the earth, they build homes, yes a sheer variety of homes (for I once collected nests when I was in class 8, which of course is a separate story) and don't ask for anything more. The whole backyard is full of birdsong. I tried to catch a particularly high pitched singer in my lenses but the green canopy proved to be too thick.  So I was left with just the song and not the sight of the singer.

Anyway I have identified my birds to be House Finches. Yay! I am an ornithologist too now!
Go take a look at  Finches at Cornell Lab of Orinthology , Georgia Finches.

They can be something else as well which is not that important. I hope they don't go extinct before I can share their beauty with my children. The next generation needs to know this beauty.Read E.O Wilson's take on this in his book Future of Life. Also I also had a germ of an idea for writing a story around these birds for 6 or 7 year olds. I will take my dig at that over summer. Oooh so many things to do in life!