The dejas and the nest that was falling apart

On Friday, April 3rd, at half past four in the afternoon, Omar Enrique Berdugo Cabeza was making his rounds through aviario 1 when something caught his eye: a pair of dejas had built their nest in a sorry state — a wooden box with a hole through which the tiny eggs were slipping toward empty air. There was no need to think twice. Something had to be done. Omar found coconut shells to give the eggs a safe place to rest, and replaced the damaged nest with one in better shape. But the dejas were not exactly welcoming. At first they stayed put, suspicious, eyeing the new nest the way one eyes a stranger who has walked into your home uninvited. They wouldn't go in. They were wary, mistrustful — maliciosas, as Omar puts it. Trust, however, came slowly — the way most things worth having tend to. Over the course of the hours, the pair began to draw closer, to explore, and in the end, they accepted the change. Today they are inside, calm and settled, their little eggs safe. A small story from aviario 1 that began with a hole in the wood and ended well.