Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Wild pigeon's home

I gladly welcome the wild pigeon to take my home as hers! It is a pleasant surprise!

This weekend I noticed there was a bird nest on a tree on the corner of my house. And when I took a closer look, there is a pigeon sitting still there, staring at me seemingly with concern about my attitude. I made slow move to leave the site, signaling that I care about her feeling. I just want to tell her to make herself at home. I won't interrupt your hatching.

Wild animals were welcome in my home, except some poisonous creatures. The other day I saw a small rattle snake in the drive way. I do not want to have any accident to us, or my pet Ginger, so I caught it in the net and send it to the bush about two hundred yards away from my home. I wish her luck in the new place, but do not come back. Now I am aware there is a family of poisonous snake in my yard, and I just hope we get along all the time.

Last year we had a coyote living in the hill which always had encounter with Ginger at night. This kind of big wild animal is the reason why I raise big dogs. For some reason, I didn't see it this year. I hope it just moved to other places rather than starved. It appeared very skinny when I last saw it.

Every day I can hear the baby voices of the eagle. I noticed on the top of eucaliptus tree on the down hill from my home they had a home for years. I even nursed one baby eagle for two days before I have human society people to take over. This baby eagle was found by Ginger when we walked down the hill after dinner. It obviously was injured falling down from the nest before it could fly. I hope it grow well into adult eagle by now.

Those cotton tail rabbits are everywhere in the bush area in down hill from my back yard, besides those in the plain area before our entrance up into the hilly home. They, along with those squarrels are just a member here, but quite difficult to take a closer look.

The only wild animal that bothers me are those gofers. I have been figuring out how to keep them away from my plants without killing them. This is a challenge for life saving principle I have. I hope someone can teach me some tip.

2 comments:

  1. there's a family of birds that lived under our roof edge in the backyard that wouldn't leave until recently. I've been waiting for them to fly away so that I can pressure wash the house, because our windows and our poor gas grill has so much poop on it, it looks like someone threw paint and graffitied our house... Bird vandalization!

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  2. I have to expect some bird families gather under the solar moudule on our roof too.

    The wild peogean seemed to discard this place and left as I have seen no birds sitting on it anymore two days in a row...good luck, and don't come back, birds!

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