Susan Ogilvy is a botanical illustrator who became fascinated with bird nests. In her lovely book Nests she paints renderings of nests of various birds from the Collared Dove to the House Martin. She explains how she learned that “each species has its own method, favoring certain materials – twigs, roots, lichen, feathers.”
One that caught my eye in her book was a goldfinch nest where the female had built one nest on top of the other. You’ll find a photo of Ogilvy’s amazing rendering at on-emotions.com.
To build a nest upon another nest is interesting. Sometimes we do have to build a new home upon one that we have already built because perhaps we outgrew the first one, or damage has been done to the original home. It doesn’t mean we leave, or start completely over, we just chose to build nest upon nest.
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