The BBQ Chick
One spring day a mama bird was looking for a place to make a nest for her babies. Because it was such a cold and blustery spring she had to find a very special and safe place.She searched everywhere for the perfect spot and after searching both high and low she found a very nice warm place that seemed to be very safe.
This place was dark but it was also very warm and out of the cold wind and there was a little hole that she could fly in and out that was just the right size. What the mama bird did not know was that this warm and dark place was actually inside of a BBQ. That doesn’t sound like a very safe place after all.
The mama bird didn’t know this though and so she began to build her nest. She worked very hard and built a big and strong nest of grass and sticks and when it was all done she lined it with the softest bits of paper she could find and even some of her own feathers.
She finished just in time and lay four very pretty blue speckled eggs inside. After some time the eggs began to shiver and shake and four little chicks came out of those four pretty little eggs.
As the chicks began to grow they began to make noises and one day those noises were heard by someone else. That someone else had come outside to BBQ some hamburgers. The chicks peeped and chirped as their nice warm and dark nest was suddenly filled with bright sunlight.
The person who owned the BBQ had heard their little peeps and opened the lid to see if something was inside. The mama bird had built such a big and strong nest that they saw the chicks right away and decided to go make pancakes instead.
Over time the chicks grew and grew and every once in awhile a bit of bright sunlight would fill their nest as the person who owned the BBQ peeked in to make sure they were still safe and sound.
Eventually first one and then another jumped from the nest and climbed out of the BBQ and learnt to fly. The last little chick to leave the nest was nervous about flying and so when he tried to jump from the warm safe nest he instead fell into a spot where the mama bird could not reach him.
Someone else had been watching as the little chicks grew though and heard the chick trapped in the little space and rescued him. They took the bird back to a nice safe place where he could finish learning to fly and he grew into a big strong bird.
So even though a BBQ may not sound like a good place to make a nest it turned out to be the very best place of all.
