Hey, PAL! Nice to bump into you here.
I was just about to sign off for the evening. It's been a long day. I've been watching over a family of scrub jays trying to make sure the neighborhood cats don't get the babies before they fly off. They had been in a nest in our lemon tree, then today I discovered that all four of them were on the ground under an Oleander bush and the parents were frantically trying to lure them back into the lemon tree.
They did manage to get them back into the tree, and this evening, just before dusk I watched each of the little birds, one by one, follow their parents into the park behind us, flying from tree to tree. It was sad to see them go, but I'm happy that they got their wings before the cats discovered them.
Do you have scrub jays where you live? They are mean birds with a harsh, raucous call. They are the "bird bullies" of the neighborhood.........but I try to remember that they are just doing as they are programmed to do. :-)
