Courtships

                The day had been a good one, everything had come together wonderfully and even now as the sun started to set, Pink couldn’t help but smile slightly. She walked down the beach that had been her old stomping ground as a child, where she had met Riptide and Waverunner. The two males having long moved on to establish their own territories. But she still liked to come by and walk, remember her time with them as they had grown.                 ...

Neriya stayed flat to the ground as she watched the deer walk by her. Her bright feathers were stuck to her body with a layer of thick brown mud, leaving a mottled appearance that allowed her to blend in with her surroundings more than she typically could. The deer were upwind from her, leaving enough of a buffer to let her sit almost entirely under their migration path, a well worn divot in the grass that stretched from one end of the forest to the other. She k...

Summer was in full swing on Seffe’s corner of the beach, and with it, the inexplicable urge to build a nesting display. And not in the cave he and Swavelli lived in, no, he needed something individual. Personal. And, most of all, visible to everyone passing by! It was a very serious ordeal to find the perfect place for construction. The beach was beautiful, and the sunsets would give his feathers a very flattering glow at the right hour, but the tide put his whole pl...

"Have you ever made a nest before?" It was a simple question but it rooted Sparrow's feet to the floor. His nests so far had been rudimentary living quarters, scraps of material to suit him and whoever was bunking with him at the time. His usual roommate had been his twin sister, and she was just as unfussy as he was. He didn't know where to begin with making a fully functional nest to incubate eggs and raise hatchlings in. He swallowed his pride and turned to S...