Nomer

I think we should all give a high five to Miss Nomer for the most platitudinous entry of the day.

en veille 2006

Peaceful enough, indeed, had been the brooding days of Mother Nomer.

Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim

He hunted long and he hunted well; but so keen was his appetite and so huge the hunger of his twins, that it took the mother, too, to keep the meals provided in the Nomer home.

Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim

A man came up to take down some electric wires that had been fastened not far from the spot that was the Nomer home.

Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim

Crippled as she seemed, she could still fumble and flutter just out of reach; and when at last the man had followed her to a corner of the roof far from her young, Mother Nomer sprang up, and spreading her long, pointed wings, took flight, whole and sound as a bird need be.

Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim

Mother Nomer just settled herself on the bare pebbles in a satisfied way, and that was all there was to it.

Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim

Then Mother Nomer sprang into the air; and the man jumped, in such surprise that, had it not been for the wall, he would have fallen from the roof.

Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim

So for the purposes of this story we may as well give him a name to suit ourselves, and call him Mis Nomer.

Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim

Nature did when the feathers of Mother Nomer were made to grow dappled like little blotches of light and dark; or, to put it the other way about, when the bird was led, by her instinct, to choose for the nesting-time a place where she did not show.

Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim

No, so far as color went, Mother Nomer might have chosen a spot in an open field, where there were little broken sticks or stones to give it a mottled look -- such a place, indeed, as her ancestors used to find for their nesting in the old days when there were no houses.

Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim