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One Blue Bird- A Fable about a Sparrow and a Parakeet
First of a two part Series Sitting in the backyard, five, brown sparrows bathed in the birdbath. They kept putting their heads under the water and splashing around. A bit later, a brightly- colored parakeet flew over to the sparrows. He attempted to get in the birdbath. The little sparrows chased him off. They chirped at him and flew at him. They didn’t want him in the birdbath. Maybe the sparrows had a nest up in the tree, above where they were bathing. Or perhaps in their tiny bird minds, they noticed the parakeet didn’t look like them. He looked different. His color was beautifully displayed in hues of…