| judith.lea99@googlemail.com 2007-05-22, 1:25 pm |
| On May 21, 11:23 pm, "Des Higgins" <dazzhigg...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Holey mother of divine sweet jayzes.
> I suppose it is lucky you did not have any Lynx.
> The poor things.
That's all very well Des Higgins but I would have resorted to Joy
(Patou I think) if I had to. I feel I am rearing these chicks.
I came home from the office this evening and what did I do? Did I run
in and pour myself a glass of wine? Did I set the iicrowave for my
Italian M & S supper, no I didn't. I went round to the back, without
even opening the front door mind, and wonder of wonders, I can hear
little chirping and little nails on the wooden floor of the box, they
are alive so I won't have to bring them in yet to save them.
Did I tell you that last year, when a little bird was sitting on her
nest, in fierce sunshine, in a bed of geraniums, that I got her a
drink of water in a ramikin and put her beak into it. When I came
back from a weekend away, the bird had flown and all I could see were
shell particles, she was sitting on 6 eggs, and one dead baby bird.
How long from hatching to flying off does it take as I can't be doing
with all this stress at my age and getting up at 5a.m. to shoo the
long pecker off.
Judith
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