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A small balcony in Paris.
The balcony terrace
It is a very small Parisian corner of balcony-terrace, with some trees,
birch, willow and poplar, climbing plants, some verdure, finally a
small piece of nature where are welcomed any wildlife (or flora) which
wishes to visit us and climb to our 9th floor.
We
had thought a long time that we were a little too high to welcome them,
but the start of was when a "moinette" (female sparrow) with pretty
white feathers in a wing, came to visit with its small chicks. From
there, some seeds kindly lent by our budgerigars… and this
is
how many years ago, began the visits of a small band of
regulars
among which, during several years (5 or 6 years), there were sparrows
with the same white wing feathers.
The sparrows were the first ones, their presence gave confidence to other more timid birds.
Since
about fifteen years, the balcony is visited by many sparrows, some
greenfinch in spring and winter, some blue tits and great tits, some
blackbirds (they do not resist the grape of the vine after a first good
frost!) and some wood pigeons (with much of moderation, the window box
do not like them too much).
Sometimes an eurasian jay, of raucous and piercing cry, passes at the autumn or spring, but it prefers to stay in the trees of the garden bellow.
Magpie, crows and starlings prefer to remain on the high
terraces of
the building, even if in a year of nest sites shortage, a couple of
starlings insisted to settle almost in our living room, in the roller
blind box.
It is on this small terrace, that we installed a nesting box located at
2 meters of the french window.
Welcome at home...
in
2006 
in 2007
and in 2008.
