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A fox or red squirrel or something like that tried to get into the house this morning at dawn. Thru the dryer vent. I opened the garage door and only caught a blur of something scurrying away.
Had my coffee on the porch later and looked in on the six baby birds. All gone. She sat on them long enough to hatch, they were eating solid food and now ... poof.
Going to wal mart to buy pellets for the pellet gun.
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It's nature, it isn't always pretty. That varmit has to eat to survive and it doesn't have a SuperMegaMart to shop at.
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Nature can be very cruel. I follow The Liberal Redneck, Trae Crowder, on social media. He was posting pics of the hummingbirds who built a nest in his yard, and lay eggs, and were raising their babies -- and then a few days ago, he posted that a squirrel had eaten every one of them. This was the first that I learned that squirrels would do this. Très upsetting.
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In nature, there is no free lunch.
Well, almost never...
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Not going to be eating or having survival worries too much longer.
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You think that you can identify the perp?
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wow, didn't realize squirrels were omnivores.
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That happened to a nest I was watching. I installed a tiny camera in a bird box I had put in a palm ... even put in a skylight so the camera would have more light. One day 4 little blue eggs, the next day nothing. I moved the bird box to a tall pole with one of those cone shaped barriers below it. Safety from the rats!
