Monday, June 22, 2009

My Kind of Bird Trivia

The female knot-tying weaverbird will refuse to mate with a male who has built a shoddy nest. If spurned, the male must take the nest apart and completely rebuild it in order to win the affections of the female.

4 comments:

the dogs' mother said...

Do you suppose that's why The Engineer brought up resurfacing the driveway??

Joy said...

I'll bet it is!

Miss Ginger Grant said...

My ex was like that. I finally got tired of rebuilding the nest and he moved out!

Joy said...

You just can't please some people, Miss G! Good riddance! This probably explains why I'm not married.