Nature just kills me ....

I really love animals

I love the birds in the spring and I always feed them

even the dang squirrels, for them I buy a big bag of corn on the cob

and I have a feeder that the cob fits in

They are just fun to watch

We have a lot of the little yellow finches and the gray,

black and white finches. And the cardinals, they are my favorite

this past winter we had some snow and I had filled the feeder

with the seeds that the cardinals love and wow I had

about 25 cardinals out back, male and female.

their brilliant red against the snow was beautiful

I had to stop putting a wreath on the front door in

the spring as the birds would always build a nest

and then it would just worry me so badly that they 

wouldn't survive or a dang snake would crawl up my

front door to get the eggs.....arghh! 

if that happened, I would have to move

back a few years ago a baby robin fell out of the nest

and we couldn't not get to the nest. The momma robin was around

so we put the baby in a shoe box hoping she would feed it

but she didn't.....so we did! We researched what to feed it

and you have to do it all day long.

we were taking vacation days as we had family here from

out of town. So everyone pitched in taking care of the baby

eventually it was able to fly and the momma bird returned

so that turned out well

And now again, a whole nest fell out of the tall pine tree

3 babies and one egg unhatched.

the babies are older though because they are covered in feathers

and you know I have to take care of them

I just don't have it in me to ignore them and let them die

so we put them in a box with some papers

I put seed in there for the momma bird

and she has been bringing them food every day, all day long

it has been 3 days now, they are getting bigger and stronger

and momma bird is still feeding them all day

now here is the most sad part....poor little Pippa Lou wants

to be their mother! (remember the Dr Suess book, Are you

my Mother) one of the birds fell out of the box and sweet little

Pippa Lou stood guard over it until Johnny came outside and saw

what was going on. Johnny put him back in the box. We can't

leave her outside even though we have the box up high

she just wants to stand guard and it scares momma bird.

that's it for now

later.....