It’s becoming routine to spot a turkey at a neighbor’s house, next door or across the street. Last week, we saw a turkey most every day. There are at least two. One has a small beard.
Maybe they’re nesting nearby?
The Eastern Bluebirds that hatched on Easter in a nestbox next to our driveway will fledge this week. In just over two weeks they’ve gone from naked to fully-feathered and from the size of a fishing worm to the size of the parents. Each will jump to the nestbox hole and take off to a nearby tree, where the parents will bring food for a week or two.
In another front yard nestbox, Black-crested Titmouse eggs hatched this week. That green mossy nest is lined with dog hair we offered in a wire cage intended for a cake of suet.
In our garage, wren babies are a few days older. That nest of leaves and pine needles and sticks sits in a plastic tub on a gardening shelf. It’s not often that our garage doors are up. So, the parents bringing food must go around to the side door that has a doggie door without a flap.
Most of the time every day, we have dozens of Lesser Goldfinch eating or waiting their turn to eat Wagner’s thistle seed. We count the expense as entertainment.
In the past several weeks, each day gorgeous Cedar Waxwings have dropped to our big boulder bird bath.
Now, we’re awaiting the Painted Buntings’ return.
We’re also eagerly awaiting KissMe’s return from the specialty vet hospital. Last week, I missed composing Montage when KissMe made a late night trip to the emergency hospital with pain in his hind legs. Thursday, he had a surgery to remove disc material compressing his spinal column near his lower back. He’s slow returning home because he cannot yet pee.
When I phoned on Monday afternoon, one vet tech was cuddling him while others were standing around enjoying his sweet presence.
KissMe has a care package awaiting him at home, left off by Christine Greve and her three doxies.
The Buda Wiener Dog Races, dreamt up by our own Diane Krejci, take place the last weekend in April. Look for the Wonder Wiener ad in this newspaper.
Look for your emailed water bill in your junk or spam folders if it looks like you did not get one emailed near the end of March. The City Water Utility will send by snail mail and email only through June 2018. As customers receive their water bill electronically, the City (and thus the customers) will save the cost of the postcard, postage, and City staff time to print the bills.
I look for tidbits (subject: Tidbit) emailed to ptom5678@gmail.com or left on our answering machine at 512-268-5678. Submitted tidbits save me time, and they add elements I could not dream up. Thanks! Love to you, Pauline
