The Lucie Foundation’s Open Call: Notions of Home got me thinking about the broad range of what it means to have a home, make a home, inhabit a home, and things such as that. In the saguaro cactus near the local golf course club house, a starling had taken over a nest previously made by a different occupant and then abandoned. I wondered why I had been abandoned and why it made a prime nest for this starling. In early May I began seeing a chick appear, peaking its head out and squawking hungrily. I went back daily and sat with my camera, waiting and watching. My patience was finally rewarded with this amazing image of these birds. And the image was awarded by the Lucie Foundation. 

2021 Lucie Foundation Open Call: Notions of Home

CATEGORY WINNER, Animal/Pet/Wildlife

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