linda..i do that with my dog hair..it's a good thing
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ok.. it wasn't a beautiful day in the neighborhood after all...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
it's hot but i pulled up a chair and my bird book and the binoculars and the camera and got comfy
it didn't take long to see what was really going on..
a damn f****** race war between sparrow tribes
the little chirping or brewer's sparrow...they both have the white eye stripe and buff underbody color..i couldn't get a good look at the top of them..they are fast little flyers..even in this heat
so best guess is chirping sparrow cause i know they are here
in comes the little sparrow..luggin it's cargo that had to match or exceed it's body weight
into the nest...pat - pat into place..sit on the branch and pant..it's high 90's and nasty out there
off it flew..put down the binoculars..incomeing bird.wow, that was fast..must be a pair
nope it's a brown chin sparrow.easily recognized
brown chin sparrow... the thugs of the sparrow world
the mean spiteful terrorist of the bird world.. (they will build right on top of the blue birds after the eggs are hatch and suffocate the babies..grrrrrrrrrr
they are good little buggers though..
into the nest.. and then plop - out comes a piece of hemlock to hit the patio..
sit on a branch and look around and then off it went
i said..WHAT.? ? ?
watched some more...in came a chick-a-dee..must have been a reporter chick a dee..getting the scoop..checked out the nest..looked at the ground - off it flew
repeat of the branches in..branches out
in comes a bluejay..huh.. must be working for a different news agency..checked out the
scene and off he went
repeat of the branches in and then back out
i went for a cool drink and came back out to squaking in the nest....one of the pair had stayed to guard it and was after the brown chin
yeahhhhhhhhhhhh.. i cheer on the nest builder
sat back down..neck is hurting..watched the incomeing and tossing out yet again
got really mad at that brown chin and was going for my water hose
hubby says..what are you doing now?.....
i say.
.i'm ending a war..i'm gonna shoot that damn brown chin outta the tree with a blast of water every freakin time he tries to land
hubby says..let um alone..if they manage to have chicks the brown chins will only kill them and then how will you feel to see un feathered wrinkled litte birds on the patio
you shouldn't mess with nature..
i thought about it....i don't like it
i went and got some more cool water and sat and watched the whole thing continue
it was an arms war and neither side was backing down...
if i did get involved would i only be prolonging it? ? ?
oh damn....i am here now typing.. and not happy
i'll let ya know who finally wins
boo hoo...some birds are evil..boo hoo