I love the teenager nest-- looks well-built! I empathize with your baby robin experience. A few years ago, I figured I could just yank down the wild grape vines that were overhanging our yard. Not a wise move on my part, lovely robins' eggs & a nest came crashing down with the vine. 😢
It really was amazing what two kids could accomplish over a couple of hot summer days! So I tried to be a good sport when they tracked a whole bunch of the woods into the house!
My own agenda that day felt so meaningless, compared to what I’d done to our songbird friends 😢 The nests are often so cleverly built they’re hard to see.
Oh I am sorry about the nest and baby birds!! I hope, like you that they are the ones you saw later! It's very nice to be surrounded by wildlife! Despite the occasional bear :)
Oh golly, I can feel every gasp and sigh on the fateful pruning exercise. Me being me, I'm positive the Dad bird teaching the young 'uns to fly was all the same family and that all is truly well.
But what wonderful creatures visit you, Susan. It seems so exotic to me and you must go to bed some nights so fulfilled at having seen wild animals 'visiting'. Curiosity on both sides I imagine. Thank you for a beautiful read...
I’m so glad my story spoke to you! I appreciate so much, that you tend to look on the bright side of things too, and would like to believe Dad Robin really was teaching the very same fledglings I scared from their nest.
It does feel like a privilege and a blessing to see wild animals in nature every day. Your words actually inspired me with a different way of thinking about our place! I had always thought that what John and I do is sustainable food gardening…but I realized we are actually doing wildlife-friendly food raising!
Your kind words here brought so much light to my day! 😊
I’m glad you connected with my story—and appreciate that you share my hope that the little birds survived. As my husband and I agree, watching wildlife is our TV!
I imagine you’re having a busy summer, and hope your new greenhouse has upped your food-raising productivity! I look forward to your next post 😊
I love the teenager nest-- looks well-built! I empathize with your baby robin experience. A few years ago, I figured I could just yank down the wild grape vines that were overhanging our yard. Not a wise move on my part, lovely robins' eggs & a nest came crashing down with the vine. 😢
It really was amazing what two kids could accomplish over a couple of hot summer days! So I tried to be a good sport when they tracked a whole bunch of the woods into the house!
My own agenda that day felt so meaningless, compared to what I’d done to our songbird friends 😢 The nests are often so cleverly built they’re hard to see.
They really are too clever sometimes 😢
Oh I am sorry about the nest and baby birds!! I hope, like you that they are the ones you saw later! It's very nice to be surrounded by wildlife! Despite the occasional bear :)
Thank you for sharing your stories.
Oh golly, I can feel every gasp and sigh on the fateful pruning exercise. Me being me, I'm positive the Dad bird teaching the young 'uns to fly was all the same family and that all is truly well.
But what wonderful creatures visit you, Susan. It seems so exotic to me and you must go to bed some nights so fulfilled at having seen wild animals 'visiting'. Curiosity on both sides I imagine. Thank you for a beautiful read...
I’m so glad my story spoke to you! I appreciate so much, that you tend to look on the bright side of things too, and would like to believe Dad Robin really was teaching the very same fledglings I scared from their nest.
It does feel like a privilege and a blessing to see wild animals in nature every day. Your words actually inspired me with a different way of thinking about our place! I had always thought that what John and I do is sustainable food gardening…but I realized we are actually doing wildlife-friendly food raising!
Your kind words here brought so much light to my day! 😊
I’m glad you connected with my story—and appreciate that you share my hope that the little birds survived. As my husband and I agree, watching wildlife is our TV!
I imagine you’re having a busy summer, and hope your new greenhouse has upped your food-raising productivity! I look forward to your next post 😊