Answer: I don’t know sorry I tried (:
Answer:
1) Their nest must be close: I've seen them fly into the tree next to my bedroom window
2) Their afternoons are spent soaking up the sun and enjoying each other's company.
3) I think it's amazing that a dog and some birds spend so much of their time together.
You'll want to leave it out. if it isn't conducive to the content of your paper, it's more like a distraction from what you're trying to say. parentheses might be a "safe" way to signify a side topic, but it weakens the paper as a general statement because the reader has to pause and take a moment to absorb a new topic before going back to what you were saying
4) a question with more than one answer! :D