Sunday, September 26, 2010, 1:15 PM
The weather is a rainy 60 degrees, rather than the sunny 75 or so it was yesterday. As I was walking around today, I noticed a birdhouse attached to one of the trees outside of Eaton Hall, so I decided to snap a picture.
This got me wondering: who put the birdhouse there, and for what reason? I’ve never really understood the birdhouse as a concept. Birds can, obviously, make their own nests, so why do we feel we need to supply a house for them? And why do we provide birds homes but not, say, raccoons? Where are the faux fox burrows? What is it about birds that makes us humans think they need to be taken care of? They can fly; they can go wherever they want. It’s sort of patronizing of us to think they need our support with a little fake hidey-hole.
But on the flip side…birds are pretty. And I think that’s a pretty good case for putting a house up: so you can see more pretty things drop by.
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