Fledgling: How Hannah Bourne-Taylor Let a Baby Finch Nest in Her Hair for 3 Months

Connections can be found anywhere, with the most unlikely counterpart. To Hannah Bourne-Taylor, it was with a baby bronze-winged mannikin finch. 

Hannah and her husband had just relocated to Ghana. He was allowed to work, but her visa wouldn’t permit the same so she began feeling isolated. As a professional horse photographer, Hannah was used to being active and outdoors. To alleviate her homesickness, she turned to her new neighborhood which happened to be surrounded by grasslands. After one particular thunderstorm, she found the baby bird on the ground. The finch was abandoned by his flock, his nest blown from the mango tree.

For the next 84 days, Hannah took the finch under her wings. The bird even started making a little nest in her hair. He’d tuck himself under a curtain of hair and gather individual strands with his beak, sculpting them into a round of woven locks, resembling a small nest, then settling inside.

Eventually, the bird’s flock came back and the once vulnerable little birdie was strong enough to rejoin his flock. Hannah admitted that she still missed him from time to time, but was grateful for the company while he was there.

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