I heard a ruckus outside this morning, and knew that when the birds were that worked up that someone must have fallen out of a nest. I replaced a baby back into the hole in the wall on the front of my house.
Interesting in that I've been trying to get a good look at the birds that are actually nesting there, but the parents have stayed, scolding, in the top of the vitex when I'm outside. After putting the baby back, and then showering and washing my clothes because the little bugger was covered with bird mites, I walked outside again. Where upon one of the parent birds hoped down out of the vitex onto the roof, hopped along the edge a bit, turned and faced me and chattered up a storm. Do you suppose it was a "thank you" or "that one was supposed to stay out" or "did you see my other one? Two went missing?" (I found a bird squashed in the street just now, might have been one of these guys, but it was larger than the one I handled.) They look like some kind of chickadee or little gray finch. Not sure what they are, but there is some black on the head and it's a little bigger than a chickadee.