I don’t know what people are thinking when they load an unwanted pet in the car and travel out to the countryside, open the door and then drive off, leaving the poor little feller alongside a strange road never to be seen again. What kind of person can have no conscience about an act such as that? I’ve never understood it, but I know it happens all over the country.
Posts under ‘Critters and Wildlife’
Hummingbird Races
The hummerbirds put on a grand show, they zip up and down and circle the ranch building and chase each other and buzz me and zzzzip this way and zipppp that way and have a ball.
The Great Chickadee Rescue
There was one life lost that summer, but three saved, and now when I see a little Black Capped Chickadee on the bird feeder just off the porch, I wonder if it is one of those three baby birds that were spared and lovingly hatched by another mother that year.
Strange Behavior of Woody
Ha-Ha-Ha-HA-Ha, I could often hear him off in the woods near the ranch house. Now and then I would spot a bit of red moving up and down the side of a dead tree that was still standing. In the spring and summer I could only hear him — Ha-Ha-Ha- HA-ha– because the green foliage kept him well hidden.
Blue Popcorn Explosion!
I read an article about creating a Bluebird trail (not those pesky Blue Jays who like to dive bomb you and your pet in spring when you set out to cross the yard, these are a very different bird). Bluebirds are especially pretty, with wings of a pastel powder blue contrasting with a chest full of rusty reds like a Robin’s breast. I set out on that project.
Comanche Flock Raids Ranch!
No, there’s not a pack of wild Indians circling the ranch house whooping and hollering, killing the men and raping the women. I said a “flock”, that’s birds, and there’s not really any Comanche Indians either, just birds acting like them.
