carlton little sparrows

this afternoon i was having coffee at threshman's bakehouse in carlton. it was a bit windy, so i took my routine seat inside the cafe. i like the seat because it is in a corner behind a huge window. so i can watch all the birds, dogs, and humans outside the cafe. my favorite birds are little sparrows. they are very agile and strategic. they can always get a piece of bread from a big crowd of pigeons, and i almost never saw any casualties of them (there are a lot of road kills here, and pigeons often have injured feet). today i saw quite a few sparrow chicks. i can tell because they are still not fully fledged. so interestingly they look bigger than their mums. they seem not be able to stand upright, so it looks like they are sitting on the ground. one chick looked disoriented and she was shivering a bit in the wind. i hope her mum will come back to her soon. but other chicks are learning very fast. they can already get on the table to have a bite of cakes or fruits left by humans. i think they (and birds in general) are healthy and quite smart because they never go for the toppings on the cake, even it looks yummy and tempting.