Our family of young sparrows are chirping for food every second and the mom and dad are so busy that every few seconds they leave one at a time and return with bits of good. They start just before dawn and make their last trip just after dark. I am amazed that they have the energy to carry out their duties.
Today a adult male cardinal sat on the top of their house and right there was one of the sparrows. They might be small but they are mighty. They fend off black birds and blue jays and gang up on predators like squirrels. These little birds have two families and one year they had three different families. Every year we are witness to a natural calamity when a nest is torn apart by some animal or bird who caught the family flat footed. Nature can be cruel but left alone it will take care of itself.
Theresa and I get pleasure in seeing the good things, hate to see the bad. Forgetting the birds for a minute I think we are winning the battle with peach curl on our nectarine tree. Every day we pick the bad leaves, and there are many but new ones are growing faster. Maybe we will salvage a crop after all.
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