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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Is this in my job description?

Chasing baby robins? Is this in the mom's list of duties? Aurora and Myah were playing out back when they saw something running in the grass. As quick as they saw it, our cat moved a little quicker. Suddenly Myah sees our cat, Sandy, with a baby bird in her mouth. From the kitchen I hear both of them screaming at the top of their lungs at our cat. Myah quickly closed in on Sandy, hit her and she dropped the baby robin.
Let me preface this story. Myah, Avery and Aurora have been watching this robin nest for the last four weeks, since the tiny blue eggs appeared. They closely monitored the eggs. They finally hatched about two weeks ago. We watched the little beaks peak above the nest while their mom fed them. My three girls had grown attached to the baby birds, so to watch Sandy with one in her mouth about gave Myah a heart attack. The first bird quickly ran away and we put Sandy inside the house. Next item was checking to see if the other two birds were still in the nest. After I checked they were still there, but when Aurora checked, both decided to jump ship and landed on the ground. I chased the other one that dodged me and ran to the neighbor's yard. Myah captured the other one in the grass. Then Myah and Aurora went to the next door neighbor's house to try and find bird #3. Avery and I teamed up to return the 2nd bird to the nest. I propped her in the tree while I climbed up to the nest. She handed me the baby and I placed it in the nest. Myah and Aurora were beaming with glee as they returned with the third bird in their possession. By this time I am done with the birds and need to get back to my other "motherly" duties. Myah starts up the apple tree to return the 3rd bird to the nest when it starts squeaking. As soon as the mother bird heard that, she started diving at Myah. Myah is completely startled, drops the bird and comes running inside, pleading with me to help her with the last bird. Reluctantly I go outside, tag team with Myah to put the bird back in the apple tree. As soon as I put bird #3 in the apple tree, they both jump out, testing their ability to fly, hit the ground and run off! I was done! Let nature take it's course. The birds are trying to learn to fly and let's allow them this privilege! Myah finally understands and our bird chasing days are behind us.

3 comments:

kate n. said...

That's great! I wish we had a tree in out backyard so birds would come visit us...

Tonya said...

That's such a neat story. What a great memory!

I think it falls under "other duties as necessary" in the mom contract.

Andrea said...

Nothing shows your kids you care more than running after a bunch of wild birds! Way to go, Gabe!