Poor Twisty. She loves to go outside, but this is the first spring she’s lived with us since Andy has been residing here. My little spring birdies are starting to return home to nest – the Oregon Juncos in particular tend to nest low to the ground, if not on the ground as do the California Quail with their button feather babies. Although I love the fact that Twister might get the gophers to move elsewhere, the idea that I might find a mangled junco baby is just not ok with me.
I haven’t told Andy yet, but she’s going to be sequestered. Just like Hot Rod the Dog had to go because he wanted to eat Twisty, she’s going to have to stay inside because she wants to eat baby birdies. If she’s still living here after the spring and early summer baby birdie boom, she can go back out. I’ll even go buy some kitty toys for her to torture.
In other bird news, I have a new idea about how to watch baby house finches stick their little heads up out of the nest just outside my kitchen windows without having to also find that a blue jay has just eaten them for breakfast while mom and dad were out foraging for food. There is nothing more heartbreaking than watching a mom and dad house finch tweeting at each other, dancing around the nest as if to say “What happened? Where are they? I thought YOU were watching them!” So. I’ve had this idea for awhile. I went to TAP Plastics and purchased a bird house sized plexi-glass box. I intend to drill air holes all over it and one doorway (not too big!) and put a piece of screen over the top, and then mount it where I used to have that lovely little platform for nesting that turned into a blue jay bird feeder. We’ll see. I’m not sure if house finches will go into a box but maybe something will. Here is a videos from a few years back – before the blue jays realized I had put out a “feeder” for them. Cutest thing ever.
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