Bird!

I finally caught one of our palm tree nesters on camera. (If you look closely you'll see it perched just above the hole in the tree, worms it it's beak)I'm still not sure what kind of bird it is.....I don't recall seeing it before this year. I think now there is only one baby bird in that nest. It poked it's little head out and squawked the other day. It was pretty big, and I'm not surprised considering how many bugs the lil critter eats!

I've been pretty busy keeping up with paperwork and my garden, which has expanded to include cucumbers and zucchini. My health is still poor but is levelling off. I'm just grateful I'm not getting worse at this point, and can still walk around the house and take care of basic things.

Little bird

Meows (sister's cat) caught a small songbird yesterday. She trotted into the kitchen with it and I picked her up and walked her back outside while she squirmed and fussed and eventually dropped the the bird who landed with a 'plop' on the ground. I set the kitty down and picked up the tiny bird who was breathing hard, mouth open gasping for breath. I then placed it on a small landing of sorts in our mesquite tree while I set up a cozy bed for it to lay on inside the cat carrier. It was very late, and my dad had already gone to bed, so I scooped up the little bird, fed it some water with an eye dropper before placing it inside the carrier which I set in the laundry room to keep the lil fella warm overnight. I had planned to ask my dad to take it to a wildlife rescue group this morning, but when I woke and went in to check on it, it had passed :-(
I'll wait til the sun begins to set before going out to find a nice burial site for the little critter.

I found a nice burial site and laid the bird to rest. Then I went a little nuts digging up the garden to plant some peppers. I found a really huge grub and took a pic of it..not really sure what kind of beetle it's gonna be, but it sure was interesting.