Wall of Nests

The 1869 Beard & Robinson Stores, stretching down to the end of Van Brunt Street. This stone wall on its southern end looks fairly smooth from afar, but is in fact riddled with lots of short ledges and crannies. Numerous House Sparrows are nesting here like troglodytes. There were a good number of Starlings around, too, so you can imagine the noise, but I didn’t see any of them zip into gaps between the stone courses. I suspect there maybe some space left over for swallows, who are only now arriving from the south.