Or should that be three birds on the shelf?  Or One Wooden bird meets two paper birds?  Or should a handy bird sit on the shelf? Like me these three insider birds have been waiting for the outside birds - see below - to hatch their eggs.  It seems that the incubation time has past and the eggs - with the sad exception of one that was blown off in a perfectly dreadful stormy night three weeks ago - and the dutiful tawny  frogmouth will not have chicks.  Still maybe next year.