Bravest Bird

Soon after we moved here, Scott hung this bird feeder up on my office window . It has a silver mirror panel, so the idea is, the birds can’t SEE IN and don’t know I am sitting here, trying to work on a new novel and desperate to be distracted, as I ALWAYS am in the beginning.

The feeder was up for more than four months, but it was apparently too spooky-close to the house for the delicacies within to be tempting. Then one day, only a few weeks ago, a little tufty headed fellow landed on top f...