Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Predator Day

Well, we had the new chicks outside with the others today, and they all seemed to get along pretty well. Dante and I planted our seedlings in the butterfly garden, and found tons of grubs while we were prepping the area. The girls were going mad every time we walked near their pen. Dante's posing with both new girls.

Daddy took the kids fishing again since he got home a little early, and Dante caught 1 bass and 2 sunnys.

Before they left, we noticed that the local birds were going nuts. Dante discovered why -- we think this is a broad-winged hawk which was perched on a tree not 20 feet from our babies!

Check out his tail -- those marks are one of the reasons we're thinking broad-winged hawk.

And guess who came to visit in the evening? Now I know why I'm going through birdseed like crazy! And now you can see why we need to build our coop nice and strong! (and why I need to relocate this hanging basket.)

1 comment:

Liza said...

Wow, that raccoon picture is awesome.

I'm impressed that we have squirrels.