Babies are coming!

Qadaffi, Wisconsin politics, Lady Gaga, oil and New Zealand — all becoming protective coverings for this year’s tiny babies in their nest bowls. Temperatures are in the single digits and minuses, but the breeding birds are already nestling tiny ones under their breasts. We wrap each bowl in several sheets of paper, then add a handful of pine needles into each nest as it goes into the nest box. Twelve birds already paired up. And then out for a ski!

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