My Garden ~ Birds’ Nests, Lazy Cats and Granddaughter’s First Post

When she was a toddler, Granddaughter and I made up scrapbooks about anything and everything when she and her twin brother stayed with us. We’d do drawings, paste in leaves and flowers, and pictures and the like. I’d scribe the dictated little stories about what we’d been doing that day. These battered books are now tomorrow’s treasures. It’s the school holidays and today, blogging is the new scrapbook.  We had fun choosing a new photo of our countryside for the header. This is her first post. 

Nana and I thought how clever birds are when they make their nests. The thrush used the grasses to make a warm nest. Her nest looked like part of the clump of the same grass on the driveway bank. Pukeko is nesting in the long grass near the electric fence in front of the house. We took some photos and I wrote about them.

I am walking past the thrush’s nest while going to get the mail with Poppa.

Mother thrush chose a warm, sunny and dry place to build her nest.

She’s sitting very still and watching us. Her eye didn’t blink.

Thrush built a well-hidden nest in the ornamental tussock grass plantedon the bank beside the driveway.

Thrush laid three speckled sky blue eggs.

Six speckled dull olive-coloured Pukeko eggs. Pukeko’s nest is hidden in the very long grass.

Mischief would like to eat birds if he wasn’t so lazy.

In his dreams he’s a tiger. His name Pushy stuck when Grandson was beginning to talk and this was his word for ‘cat’.

 

Sometimes the cats come for a walk with us. We didn’t want to stay near the birds’ nests for too long, otherwise the cats might sniff out an easy meal.

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