On the bird topic, we have bluebirds .... LOTS of them! Dad put up bluebird boxes and they are going gangbusters. A pair fledged two 'batches' last year out of a box right across from our kitchen window and this year, at least one batch of babies (I think two maybe) . We have another box in the front field and I know babies fledged out of that box as well. Here's a picture for you (had to take it through a window so it's a bit of a distance):
Wow.
Like I said upthread, not many bluebirds do I see as we’ve got too many trees.
I chanced to be outside exercising last week when a bluebird family flew in. You know I think I got pics of them too.
Was a Mom and a Dad and at least one baby.
There I am doing my circuits, me and the dog, and a bluebird lands in my yard, pretty as a picture and not much more than 5 feet from me. I sit down quietly and hold my breath as come on...a bluebird!
Not only do I rarely see one but here but a couple of feet from me!
He’s all busy digging worms and stuff, flying up to a tree. I hear the cries of baby birds and think what a hoot. Maybe I don’t get to see them nesting and stuff but they’re around.
And here they come, a whole family of them.
Soon the mom comes down and she’s digging up bugs and after a young one busy following a parent around, beak open, begging for bugs.
I sit quietly, hold back dog that she not scare, and ponder that God somehow sends His beautiful creatures to me just so’s I can see them.
Probably not but golly, I’ll always remember that fifteen minutes of watching the bluebird family enjoy the bugs my gardens offered.
Moles like ‘em too!