Thankful Thursday - Malachi

Use the talents you possess -

for the woods would be a very silent place if
no birds sang except for the best.

- Henry Van Dyke - -Furriends and beans, this is what Malachi watches. He is thankful that he has Birdy TV.
For many years we have had birds build here in our carport, next to the door. There are three places in this shelf that have a nest. We do not clean them out, because the birds come back!. We hope the neighbor cat will not eat the baby birds. He stays on the driveway or in the carport. We try to watch and politely ask him to go home, but we cannot watch all the time. Keep your fingers and paws crossed that the babies will make it out. The Mom and Dad are feeding right now. We had a snake one year. She ate the baby birds. We were very sad. We have fixed the shelf so the snake cannot climb up there anymore...but cats can jump, which we worry about. (None of us are allowed owtside, so we will not eat the baby birds.)

We will put a photo of the snake below. At the time it was taken, there were patterns in the shelf. After Mom took the picture, she pulled the snake down, it had already eaten the little bitty baby birds (it would not hurt her, it is a Black Snake) and tried to catch her to take her to the woods, but Ms. Snake was able to get into a hole at the end of the carport. Mom let her go because she really did not want to hurt her, she just wanted to make her go live somewhere else!

If you do not like to see pictures of snakes, you can sign off now.
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Hope you have a great Thursday!

~ The Bunch

All God's creatures gotta eat.
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