Northeast Gardening: Daily Musings, 1 by Sarahskeeper

Sarahskeeper wrote:
Well this has been an exciting few minutes.
I'm sitting in the back yard and a baby Catbird falls out of a tree only a few feet from me.
Sarah jumps up to check it out. She will go after any thing that 'invades' her yard. She is good though and backs away on command.
I didn't even know there was a nest up there, the tree is dense.
I had just snapped more pics of that butterfly (it came back) so the camera was handy.
I asked Sarah (my dog) to get close for a cool pic. Mistake!! She grabbed it, but dropped it quickly. I picked the poor little thing up and put it back in the tree.
Meanwhile the adult birds are going crazy.
Soon the baby jumps down onto the lawn again, Sarah 'stays' and it slowly hops into some Day Lilies for cover. Then hops a good 30 feet to the edge of the yard where one adult feeds it while the other squawks like mad to distract us.
It has now hopped into the brush away from the dog but into a cat shortcut between yards.
Good luck little guy. As Anita said, "Bon Appetite"!
Andy P