I was putting mulch down around our pear tree the other day when a bird showed up and started tweeting to me. I think it was a robin but it wasn’t colorful. I thought maybe I was working around its nest but I didn’t see one.

I put my finger out and almost touched it but I didn’t want it to fly away so I withdrew my hand. I took a video of it and posted it on Facebook. Someone told me it was a fledgling and was probably kicked out of the nest by the mother. That made me think of that children’s book, “Are You My Mother.”