frustratedearthmother
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your lucky day
the little wild kingdom
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i went out to look at the killdeer eggs in a nest. one of the parents (probably the Momma) was standing over them while it was plenty warm out with the sun she was actually shading them to keep them cooler. this birdie knows us as she was much tamer than some from the past who have had nests out front. it's not that far from the birdbath. took a quick look at the eggs and talked to her calmly as i usually tell her the same thing every time i see her for a moment. "I'm not gonna hurt you or your eggs."
sadly and most likely though they will be lost to raccoons or snakes. if she loses the first round she'll lay a 2nd batch and some times she'll actually get to babies hatching but then even after that she will most often lose them. it's really sad but we get so many here because of the limestone mulch in front and back that sometimes we have two nests being sat on at the same time. between all of those somehow the population seems to persist and they keep coming back each year. when the babies hatch but before they run away and if i get a chance i go out and talk to them for a few moments to make sure they know my voice and who i am so when they come back they don't act all noisy and crazy. it seems to work, sometimes i get pretty calm birdies that know i'm not going to mess with them. the less noise the better. it saves them a lot of energy and flapping around for no reason because i know where the nest is at and if i really wanted to do them wrong i could, but i don't. i think they're such cute birdies as adults but the little peepers are even more cute and i'd never knowingly cause them harm.
i usually take pictures of the eggs and peepers if i get a chance but this year i'm not too likely to be doing that. i have enough pictures of birdies, eggs and peepers already on my website...
while i was out front i walked to the far corner where some weeds like to pop up in the gravel and while i was there i pulled out a few big handfuls and then i noticed a good sized morel mushroom out there.
later on i had a rotten orange to go put on the weed pile (maybe orioles will go after it) and on the way from doing that i noticed the morels in the back had been knocked over so i picked a few of them and rinsed them off (saving the rinse water) and let them soak for a bit and then mashed them up with my hands into the water and then i took that outside and scattered it around even more. when i was done i had the container back inside and rinsed it a little to pour that bit of water on the amaryllis.
they may never do anything but there were probably still thousands of spores even in a little bit of water that was left but you never know what can happen in the future. at some point that potting soil will get reused in a garden and then something may happen from them after all. the larger mushroom i left out front because i've not seen any out in that area before (it could have had some that i never saw) so i left it there because we're supposed to get some rain tonight and just a few moments ago we had a bit of rain come through.
the rinsed plastic container went into the recycle bin because it has finally gotten to it's reuse life end where it is getting to the stage of cracking and while i'd have liked to keep it longer because the shape of the bottom of the container is nice a flat and that made those ones really nice for mashing up egg shells i have a few more yet to use up (it's probably about 10yrs old).
sadly and most likely though they will be lost to raccoons or snakes. if she loses the first round she'll lay a 2nd batch and some times she'll actually get to babies hatching but then even after that she will most often lose them. it's really sad but we get so many here because of the limestone mulch in front and back that sometimes we have two nests being sat on at the same time. between all of those somehow the population seems to persist and they keep coming back each year. when the babies hatch but before they run away and if i get a chance i go out and talk to them for a few moments to make sure they know my voice and who i am so when they come back they don't act all noisy and crazy. it seems to work, sometimes i get pretty calm birdies that know i'm not going to mess with them. the less noise the better. it saves them a lot of energy and flapping around for no reason because i know where the nest is at and if i really wanted to do them wrong i could, but i don't. i think they're such cute birdies as adults but the little peepers are even more cute and i'd never knowingly cause them harm.
i usually take pictures of the eggs and peepers if i get a chance but this year i'm not too likely to be doing that. i have enough pictures of birdies, eggs and peepers already on my website...
while i was out front i walked to the far corner where some weeds like to pop up in the gravel and while i was there i pulled out a few big handfuls and then i noticed a good sized morel mushroom out there.
later on i had a rotten orange to go put on the weed pile (maybe orioles will go after it) and on the way from doing that i noticed the morels in the back had been knocked over so i picked a few of them and rinsed them off (saving the rinse water) and let them soak for a bit and then mashed them up with my hands into the water and then i took that outside and scattered it around even more. when i was done i had the container back inside and rinsed it a little to pour that bit of water on the amaryllis.
they may never do anything but there were probably still thousands of spores even in a little bit of water that was left but you never know what can happen in the future. at some point that potting soil will get reused in a garden and then something may happen from them after all. the larger mushroom i left out front because i've not seen any out in that area before (it could have had some that i never saw) so i left it there because we're supposed to get some rain tonight and just a few moments ago we had a bit of rain come through.the rinsed plastic container went into the recycle bin because it has finally gotten to it's reuse life end where it is getting to the stage of cracking and while i'd have liked to keep it longer because the shape of the bottom of the container is nice a flat and that made those ones really nice for mashing up egg shells i have a few more yet to use up (it's probably about 10yrs old).
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flowerbug
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i'm glad it didn't get run over by someone running a lawn mower. sometimes one of the neighbors will mow on their big riding lawn mower along the road (1/4 mile to a 1/2 mile on each side).
looked it up, $25 for the bottle.
