Cheep digs! #Wordless Wednesday #Why are both birdhouses askew I ask you?

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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37 Responses to Cheep digs! #Wordless Wednesday #Why are both birdhouses askew I ask you?

  1. rajkkhoja's avatar rajkkhoja says:

    Amazing capture bird’s house.

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  2. LOL – clever title, that must’ve been a full nest of birds with lots of activity. Or maybe the wind caused it to tilt? Way to have the camera ready to catch photos of it!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:

      I wish I could take credit for the title, Shelley, but on my recent “Head Tilt” post, a fellow blogger named JP commented “Very nice! But why are these all askew, I ask you? 🙂” So I thought that was clever and told him I might plagiarize that line and he said to go ahead with any of his quips. He often responds to my posts with a quip in his comment. These two birdhouses, both off-kilter, are at Heritage Park so I wish I could have said that in the post … why are they both tilted? I’m thinking more a nest full of birds, maybe heavy birds. 🙂

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      • Ah, it was a teamwork effort then for the title! That’s great, I love it.
        I wonder if you go back there they’d be back to straightened out?

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:

        Yes, JP will get a kick out of how I used it when he catches up reading posts. I told him I had some more head tilt shots to use down the road. I actually had been intending to add these shots to that original post, but this worked out better I think. I am going to go back there and see if they straightened them out, probably in early April when I will be on the lookout for Mama Goose in the boulders by the bridge. The plein air painting group always makes Heritage Park their first outing of the year, usually the beginning of April, so I thought I’d stop and say “hi” to them at the same time. Can I then use the saying “I killed two birds with one stone?” (Hmm – maybe that’s too gory to use that line.)

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      • I hope JP does get a kick out of it. I’m so impressed that you’re already planning future posts. Way to go!!

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:

        I think he will – I hope he remembers our comments about it. Well I hope you like the ideas!!

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  3. Faulty construction? Lax housing codes?

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  4. Hopefully someone will fix it before the mating season starts.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:

      Yes, for sure! These two birdhouses are at Heritage Park at the Community Garden, so I am surprised the park didn’t notice it and fix it. I’ll bet the birds put their nesting materials in, then the chicks stayed on one side, rather than the wind causing an issue.

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  5. Zazzy's avatar Zazzy says:

    Call the carpenter!

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  6. Tilting at birdhouses rather than windmills??

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:

      Very clever Anne! My blog post title today was not MY wittiness. A fellow blogger named JP commented with a quip on my recent “Head Tilt” post saying “Very nice! But why are these all askew, I ask you? 🙂” I told him I was going to plagiarize that line and he told me to go ahead.

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  7. trumstravels's avatar trumstravels says:

    Someone needs to move to the other side of the house!😃

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:

      Yes, they do Susan – don’t you wonder how they don’t get dizzy? If it was just one bird house it would have been odd, but both houses and this is at Heritage Park, so you’d think a park caretaker would fix it. Gave me a giggle and a fun Wordless Wednesday post.

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  8. I just replaced one of my birdhouses with a “triplex.” Now to see if anyone will take advantage of it.

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  9. Lots of wind or lots of birds!?

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:

      I’m thinking lots of birds Terri since all that nesting material is spilling out, especially out of the one house. To see one tilted house was funny, but two, almost side by side? This is at Heritage Park, so I’m surprised one of the park caretakers didn’t notice and fix it before a youngster tumbles out.

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  10. I’d guess the people or person who built that has passed and now nobody takes care of it?
    Looks like a birdy condo!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:

      Actually these are two birdhouses at Heritage Park. They are located in the Community Gardens at the entrance, so they are pretty visible. I am surprised that the park caretakers didn’t notice it.

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  11. Two Leaning Towers of Pisa… real architectural treasures in the avian world.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:

      Ha ha – yes, you’re right about that Tom! I hope that Heritage Park fixes those birdhouses before new nests are built and plump baby birds all cram into one side of their living quarters. 🙂

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  12. Ally Bean's avatar Ally Bean says:

    Huh. Kind of not how I’d expect a birdhouse to be, but so it goes. Maybe the wood has rotted under the house and that’s why it is tilting?

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:

      I’d be worried piling too many baby birds in a nest inside that birdhouse. I agree with you Ally that both birdhouses looks like the bottom was coming apart. These are huge birdhouses outside the Community Gardens at Heritage Park, so I was surprised they had fallen into disrepair.

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  13. What happened here?!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:

      Isn’t that strange Esther? Two birdhouses, same design/type, etc. and each leans to one side. I’m thinking all the baby birds loaded up on one side of each birdhouse and made the birdhouse pole tilt a bit. The bottom platform of each birdhouse looks a little ragged. These are birdhouses at the front gate at the Community Gardens at Heritage Park. The Community Gardens is where people can buy plots to grow flowers or fruits/veggies and also part of the area is maintained by people doing community service and the seeds/seedlings are planted, maintained and harvested for the Fish & Loaves Food Pantry. I wonder how it goes unnoticed?

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  14. It looks like the bottoms are rotting out. Won’t be long and the purple martins will be moving in!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:

      I hope none of the chicks fall out of the bottom! I’m surprised they were not repaired – this is at the entrance to the Community Gardens at Heritage Park. It does like it would hold a lot of purple martins doesn’t it Diane?

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