Post by greta on May 17, 2009 2:28:55 GMT -5
There are no babu doves on my front porch this year ... there is a nest with four robin chicks instead. The parents spend each day digging up so many worms to feed their little ones that I haven't yet heard a peep of hunger from any of the 4 little chicks. I'm not sure when they'll fledge. There were 4 eggs to begin with and two hatched about the same time. The other two eggs hatched later, so those chicks are smaller.
While my son was mowing my lawn this evening, he came upon a nest of 4 baby rabbits. Their mother wasn't around and Mark's dog Toby startled one of the babies and it bolted. Mark thinks it ran under the evergreen tree in the front yard. I'm just hoping the little one found its way back to the nest. It's supposed to freeze here tonight. Funny, too. I thought rabbits lived in burrows the way wild ferrets and polecats do.
While my son was mowing my lawn this evening, he came upon a nest of 4 baby rabbits. Their mother wasn't around and Mark's dog Toby startled one of the babies and it bolted. Mark thinks it ran under the evergreen tree in the front yard. I'm just hoping the little one found its way back to the nest. It's supposed to freeze here tonight. Funny, too. I thought rabbits lived in burrows the way wild ferrets and polecats do.
