Last-minute call for wordsmiths!

Why don'tcha take a breather from today's festivities by penning a tale of 500 words that touches on birds, birding or birders?

It just needs to include a setting, a character or characters, a conflict and a resolution, and the birds cannot be anthropomorphized.

Please send the short story on July 5. You could win a recently published book if your story appears here on the 7th!