mchristine

I find this study both meaningful and interesting.  I had the experience of both watching and dreaming a sparrow building a nest on a tree. Some of my birder friends in Hong Kong said that I must be dreaming because no sparrows nor swifts would build nest on a tree.  By mere coincidence, I met an artist from Beijing who told me that there were tree sparrows in ancient Chinese paintings.  A few years later, a veteran birder 和平里的孩子 showed me REAL photos of tree sparrows taken by him in Beijing, I believe.   Last year, I found all these bird related photos in ancient Chinese arts exhibited in The Palace Museum 故官博物館, Shanghai Museum 上海博物館 and Museu De Arte De Macau 澳門藝術博物館.  I am thrilled that I had not gone crazy yet because of too much bird watching!!!!