The Birds Are Back

A couple days ago, I was out in the yard, working amongst the flowers and bushes, and on three different occasions came across very young birds trying to hop/fly away from me. This occurred in three different areas of the yard. I was afraid that one was going to hop into the garage and get behind some stuff which would make it very difficult to find and catch. Fortunately, it hopped off into the bushes by the northeast corner.

At least I didn't have to deal with any Mama Birds. They are a real pain. I'm kind of surprised to still find young birds out this late in the season. Hope they survive.

Today, we boated over to McDonald's for breakfast. That means eating out on the boat and feeding the mallard ducks who are permanent year-round residents of the lagoon by McDonald's. There are also a lot of noisy seagulls.

But, today, they were joined by three white geese (one looked like he might be a descendant of Old Crooked Neck who was there one whole summer a few years ago, but we haven't seen him since. His neck was bent at a 45 degree angle.) In addition, we had three Canadian geese, and we've never had them before. It made for quite a noisy conglomeration. The geese sort of ruled the waves, but the ducks were faster so managed to still get most of the crumbs we were tossing.

Tonight, I watched Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds." Sure glad I didn't see this movie last night. That would have made today's breakfast at the McDonald's lagoon a whole different story.

Hey, No Pecking the Hands and Face!!!!! --RoadDog