Good news?
Our visiting Kestrel is back…
And he brought a friend…
(Apologies for the photo quality, I was at the utter limits of my zoom lens)
They’re such pretty little things, and I enjoyed watching them fly around the yard all morning.
Until I heard a thump…
And looked out the window.
Yeah.
Not for the dove anyway.
Kestrels will be Kestrels.
But it would have been nice if he’d finished his meal and not left me the pieces and parts clean up detail…
As well as a blood stained lawn.
Okay, granted… it could be worse.
But still….
River's world..... 
Oh dear! Kind of icky and sad. Poor birdie.
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The circle of life…. but no. I don’t like to see it either.
😰
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Ah! The Rich Tapestry of Life.
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Rich, bloody and feathered…..
😳
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Yeah, you certainly don’t want dragons on your lawn. I put up a sign to prevent that.
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Our back yard is large enough for a dragon landing… and it would certainly keep the neighborhood kids off our lawn.
Hmm
🧐
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If The Dragons moved in, The Kestrels would probably move out. and the dogs and the cats and the mice and the rats and the possums and the pretty much everything.
No more Kestrel mess, just Dragon mess. 😳
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Upside?
I could build my own throne out of bones…
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Wouldn’t that be something? Having a dragon landing in the back yard, I’m in! But then the mess they’d leave behind, ugh. 🙄
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You may be right. Would probably need the neighbor’s back hoe for poo removal.
🐉💩🐉
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Birds will be birds–at least they left you a memento!!
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Very thoughtful, yes.
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Jeez! Mother Nature is such a savage! What a mess he left though… Who’s his mother? She didn’t teach him to clean up after himself?
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Clearly, she did not.
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Yeah. The other day we were leaving and Moo said, “Look at the hawk!” I looked up and I said, “Oh is that a new hawk? Is it new? What kind is that — ” and as I said it, it swooped down and took a smaller bird and I said, “Okay, yes, hawk, new hawk at the house.”
😦 Well it’s just what they do…
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Hawks will be hawks.
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It’s all fun and games until someone eats a pigeon…
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Mourning dove, but yes.
😉
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River g…..MAY 12, 2019 AT 7:57 AM
“Upside?
I could build my own throne out of bones…”
I like where your going with this.
1/-Encourage Dragons to feed in your yard.
2/-Accumulate discarded bones from said feeding.
3/-Build throne from said bones.
4/-One easy step to world domination.
easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
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Step 1 –
Adopt dragon.
Any ideas?
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Shudda left it. A fox would have scooted up soon and finished off and we’d have yet another wildlife of Maine story.
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I did leave it overnight, and the body was gone by morning. Feathers and blood stayed..
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yay!
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Oh dear. Just a tad icky. Clearly lacking in lawn manners. Loved the ‘could be worse’.
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A tad.
But it’s better than the eviscerated squirrel from last year.
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