06/23/2025
Good Monday morning everyone. Last night I told you some about my previous week focusing mainly on the appliances. Now let me get into the wild animal portion of it. We have birds nest everywhere. On the bottom of our upper deck we have 4, we had one on our top deck in a watering can and we had one in a bucket in the barn. These were all being used so I couldn't do anything about them until the babies hatched amd grew. Anyway, I go on the lower deck to blow it off because the goats like tol lay on it and well they also like to leave behind little reminders that they were once there. So im blowing off all the little pebbles and turn the corner happily minding my business and proceed to almost step on a big old black snake. Dont really mind them, but it was in my blowing zone and close to where the dogs get into the basement garage. It does leave. We decide to try to find it and relocate it just a little farther from the house, but that is a fail. So we were hoping it just went on its merry way. Fast forward to the next day. We are out on the upper deck and as we walk by the watering can with the birds nest I tell Dale to check. They should have left the nest or be about to at any rate because I had been hearing them for a while. He moves it some to make sure momma ain't in there and he says it's kind of heavy. He picks it up and proceeds to look in it and well...the birds are gone, but we found the snake all happy in the watering can. This time we do get to relocate the snake to away from the house. Now onto yesterday where my bucket birds have decided it's time to leave the nest. Only we have a small bucket with water in it for the ones that still spend the night in there. A couple sadly did not make it, I found them too late ð. I was able to rescue one out of the water bucket and put it in a safe space to dry off, once I detached it from my finger. Little guy had a death grip. It stayed in its safe place all night, I honestly wasnt sure it was going to make it. It was flying around this morning so hopefully it finds it's way out today. Momma seemed to have taken off with her remaining children yesterday, but im hopeful. I am really hopeful that those babies birds in the watering can flew the nest before the snake found it too. So that is 2 out of I dont know how many birds nest I can safely remove. Now I am just waiting on the other ones to hatch or fly the coop so I can move them to. On a good note we have a momma deer who likes to show off her twin babies, at a distant of course. We also have a nice little buck that likes to hang around too. The momma always brings her babies around every year, but the buck is new and he just kind of hangs around eating what the goats dont in the pasture. Now there is a downside to this and that is I am not 100 percent sure where momma is bedding down with her babies but it may be where the new pasture is going to be fenced off, so we will have to be mindful of that too. So yep at this point we are not just a farm, but also apparently an aviary and currently the hip place fornthe deer to hang out ðĪŠ. Here's to hoping this week is better! Have a great start to the week everyone and stay cool, it's like a sauna out there ðŦ
