bluebird with beak full

bluebird with beak full

of fine long grasses gathered

for lining her nest

Diane Porter took this adorable photo of a bluebird carrying an amazing load of grass to her nest. How could she gather so much grass in her tiny beak? Did she pick up each stem one by one? What would keep them from falling out when she picked up the next one? Or did she manage to scoop the entire bundle up at once? The incongruity of a bird with what appears to be long whiskers makes me wonder if she might have been a cat in her last life, perhaps a cat that caught a little bluebird on the way to her nest.