Little Visitors

We've had little birds and baby deer visitors on our property this Spring. Frank got this picture near his door of a bird's nest, I've had a swallows' nest with babies in the eaves of the house, and Bob found a newborn baby deer asleep in the grass out front. The mommy deer and baby were reunited yesterday.  (Because I am computer-inept I've lost the picture!)

It's raining, and all is well here. We're still having fun doing  wedding "stuff"!

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Eagle Training Ground

Bob will try to get a picture of the Eagle that has either been living in our Spring Creek/Arena area, or is hunting there daily. Our neighbor has caught him on camera, and Bob has watched him hunt a few times, mostly he's after moles or prairie mice.

Often a parent Eagle, or Hawk, will train their young ones up high over our property. A couple of days ago Bob and Elmer watched this Eagle swoop down out of the higher trees in the Creek area and try to take a baby deer in his talons. The baby started screaming and the mom, who was a little ways away, ran after the Eagle and stomped at him repeatedly before taking off with the baby. Baby deer are big! He must have been brave or hungry!

Pictures soon we hope....

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Wild Idaho

A friend up the road (where Frankie had his famous roll-over a few years ago) sent out this email and these pictures. We really do have wildlife in our yards!

"Yesterday a hummingbird flew into my garage and couldn't find its way back out through the large, open door. I had this happen once before and since they have to eat often it died within a few hours.  This time I attempted to coax it out with the use of a leaf blower, but it stayed near the ceiling and flew from beam to beam until it was too tired to fly any longer.  When it was obvious it could no longer fly I put the platform on the forklift and had Sally raise me to the bird.  I peeled him off the cable he attached himself to and she lowered us back down.  We attempted to get it to drink nectar from a feeder, but it wouldn't do it, so Sally put her finger on its long beak and shoved it into the hole.  It took several large gulps and then pulled back out.  I continued holding it while Sally went inside for the camera.  She took this one photo, then the little guy looked me straight in the eyes and flew off.  She later saw it at one of the feeders, or one just like it anyway."

"The other photos are of the moose visiting a few days ago and then of Chester, the deer with the broken legs that we nurtured through the past 2 winters.The other photos are of the moose visiting a few days ago and then of Chester, the deer with the broken legs that we nurtured through the past 2 winters."

" He spent this last winter in and around our yard where we fed him cracked corn and alfalfa.  Now he comes by once every couple weeks and always wags his tail when he sees us.  If he makes it through hunting season I'll probably feed him again this winter as he's fun to watch and gets so excited when his corn dish is set out for him."

Ron

Some times it sounds like the wilds outside, or like the Tiki room at Disneyland!

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