Birdies all gone

[tagryn]

The baby birds in the robin's nest outside our bedroom window started cheeping a lot on Monday. Yesterday when I was out watering the garden, I looked in and saw the nest was empty. Looked around a bit, found a tiny corpse of a dead bird but it had obviously been there a while - probably the runt of the three eggs, as there were two fledglings with almost full feathers there over the weekend. No sign of a struggle, the nest is in good condition still. Donna's likely right, they probably all just flew away. Well, its a better ending than the dove's nest met last year.

And the mosquitoes were seriously biting yesterday, after noticing none over the weekend. Glad I put the mosquito dunks in our rain barrels over the weekend, thought I was being premature on that. Guess not, and I'll have to start spraying myself now before I go out to do watering. Oh, well. Happens every year.