Sticking Close to Home

Tomorrow, I start my first of many 

Fridays at the National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame .

Saturday, we have our first (huge) event of the season, 

Barnyard Babies. 

I stuck pretty close to home today, to get our house clean, and 

to rest in anticipation. 

We did go for a walk, and despite driving about 8 miles of 

back roads, this is all we saw: 

Yesterday...

I saw this in the hawk nest.  I got a little worried... from the street, you could only see white. 

The mailman stopped, he has been watching her too... and we talked about it.  The white worried him. 

This was this morning: 

She is fine. 

I left the door open while I worked in the basement cleaning today, so I could hear the birdsong.  

Then I took a chair and put it back in the shadows, and shot out the door. 

A grackle soon took his place. 

While this cowbird ate under the bench. 

He was not alone. 

They look a little spooky, don't they?