Here’s my response to Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt...
How Will They Manage?
Our yard’s an avian paradise. Birdseed liberally sprinkled, water bowls, even a sprinkler on hot days. Cats trained to ignore birds. However will they manage in the real world?
Image: Peggy_Marco — Pixabay
This is no fiction tale. The noise in our yard can be deafening at times — like when I go out with my birdseed first thing in the morning. As I have written before, the birds aren’t the only ones taking advantage: in the past few weeks I’ve often seen a doe and her fawn drinking from the basin between us and the woods. A few days ago I was up at the crack of dawn and saw a jackrabbit hopping around my front yard water dishes. And I’m amazed how bold the birds are around my cats. Hummers will feed at flower pots right beside where the cats are lying!
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The birds are enjoying the sprinkler in the morning! Hope you can keep cool this weekend!
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I hope so, too! Getting a heat wave like this, right at the end of summer, is rather unique.
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My yard is a bird haven, too, just because I have a birdbath and no cats. It’s one of the only such spots on my block! I love them. Migrating birds come through to bathe.
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Our cats are lazy old things, but I’ve made it clear they’ll be sorry if they bother the birds. the problem is the stray that lives in one of the neighbour’s sheds. Can you believe it, when I saw the jackrabbit, I saw the stray near our step, slinking along as if he was planning to pounce on the thing. Every bit as big as himself. Fat chance, buddy!
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Jack rabbits are no joke!!!
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I think the cat would have learned his lesson.
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A charming yard bird story. 🙂 Nicely done.
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Thank you. We do enjoy our summer visitors. 🙂
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How wonderful to have your yard come to life like this!
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Yes. Having so much activity now makes up for the long winter days of gray, gray gray. Thanks for your comment.
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That is the bummer side of things, for sure.
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Let’s just say it will be the time we write that back-burner novel. 😉
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There ya go! Plans!!
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I so envy you, all I get are pigeons and gulls and they really are noisy!
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I’m glad we have only mourning doves; no pigeons or gulls. But gulls near the sea are probably more used to people and expecting handouts than our prairie gulls. They rather follow the tractors as the soil’s being turned up. We get grackles, that are maybe just as much of a pest.
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