Calling David Attenborough

Photo: Jill M. Lassaline

A few days back I was holding Simon and hanging out in the front lawn for a few minutes before loading him into the car. A family of Chickadees (Janet's call) had set up a nest in a tree in our front yard, two of the chicks were on the ground in our front yard looking like they had just exited the nest. Both were doing their best to try flying. One off to my right was actually getting off the ground a bit. I was pointing this out to Simon who was fascinated. The little chick we were watching made a big effort and got a few feet off the ground, and flew like crazy maybe four feet along when WHAM, in streaked a hawk and nailed it about five feet from where we were standing and in an instant was gone.
Okay dokay, moving on, I'm glad Simon's only one and what just happened is lost on him.



Photo: Jim Parrish