Mocking Me

May 29, 2010

We have had a pair of mockingbirds yell at us each time we leave the house and they started to dive bomb the cat as he walked up the driveway. I figured there must be a nest out there somewhere. So I started hunting for it. I found it one of the bushes in front of the house. Our yard slopes at the end of the bush so I wasn’t tall enough to see inside the nest. While I was peeking around the area, the birds didn’t like that I was there. Then I noticed a different chirping noise near me at the top of the bush. That’s when I noticed the baby bird sitting there. He must have been getting ready to leave the nest. You could still see the downy feathers on his head. I tried to get some pictures, but the angle wasn’t good for that and I don’t do well taking pictures with the camera over my head! So this is the best I could get.

I checked on him again today and I didn’t see him. Mama and Daddy were yelling at me though so I know he was close!

In the mail today we got Madison’s caterpillars. We are trying out the butterfly garden. Hopefully in a few weeks we will be releasing our painted lady butterflies outside. We have several butterfly bushes in the yard already, so hopefully they will stay close for a bit. The girls are really excited about the butterflies.

One more bit of nature from the yard…the other morning the girls woke us up to report there was a turtle walking through the side yard. Sure enough, there was! We don’t get many random turtles around here. I should have let them out to feed it some lettuce or something, but it was before I had a cup of coffee or visited the potty that morning, so I wasn’t fully awake to think it through. He was moving out pretty fast, I hope he reached his destination safely.

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