Baby Birds!

All the baby birds flew late yesterday afternoon into the early evening. There were 4 of them and I feel personally responsible for them making it this far in life! That visiting ratsnake was soooo close the night we arrived home from the ordination. He only had another foot to go and he would have been to the nest. This fledgling is working up his nerve to test his wings.

I find it so amazing that they never come back to this nest they have called home for so long once they leave it. There must be a spiritual analogy there somewhere. Have not seen the snake for about a week now. . .there has been an eagle about and so perhaps the snake got snatched by a bird of prey that did not care about his endangered status!