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  Recently a brown-eared bulbul² has been flying really close to the window of my teaching room. Sometimes we are so close like 1 meter from each other that I can see her eyes, her beak³ and her feathers⁴ so clearly.

 

  At the same time⁵, Will started saying "Recently I often see brown-eared bulbuls around our house. Especially when the crows are around. I wondered if they are being nervous because they are nesting?"

 

  We soon found out. There was a nest! There was a nest right against my window! Yesterday we saw 2 eggs. This morning 3!

 

 

  The parents were not around⁶ when we saw them. Interestingly, Will told me that after they lay eggs, they don’t have to start warming them right away. For about 2 weeks, the eggs can stay in the nest as they are, but once the parents start warming the eggs, they can’t leave the nest. They have to keep them warm all the time⁷.

 

  That’s how they can raise all the babies at the same time. If the eggs hatch⁸ at different times, the parents have to take care of each baby bird in a different growing stage in a different way. That’s not easy.

 

  So when the mother first sits in the nest, that’s the time the clock starts⁹!

 

  We learned that usually brown-eared bulbuls lay 3 to 5 eggs. I wonder how many more we’ll see in the next few days?

 

  We are looking forward to hearing the baby birds start chirping¹⁰ literally right next to our house wall!