Robins in my Lemon Tree

Morning to all, Well, we are enjoying the spring going into summer. Down at Nita's home, I watched a robin raise her little ones and watched them fledge from the back porch on a rainy day, the dove at the end of the porch still sitting on eggs when we left. Downstairs outside on the front of the house there is another robin sitting on her eggs on the latticework next to the walkway toward the porch. Just before we left we noticed that one of the eggs had hatched, so there goes another batch of robins, which will fledge before we get back down there, the doves also.

Here is a pic of the robin on top of the electric box and the dove is on the trellis just to the side of where the robin built.

 

When we got to OH. this time around we found our plants blown over and to my surprise was a robin nest and 4 broken eggs next to it on our driveway. So I picked up the plants ( one large lemon tree, and tree-shaped oleander) and picked up the nest and we wired it to the lemon tree. It just looked so cute there is the only reason I did it. Then a few days later Vince was going by on the riding mower and saw a bird fly away from the tree, so he went to take a look, and what to his and my surprise was a single robin egg in the nest. So we have now anchored the pot with heavy rocks on top of the pot and braced the sides so the wind can't blow it down again. So here we are with more robins coming along. This pot is perhaps 10 feet from the garage and we are out there off and on each day and so are the dogs, the robin does not seem too bothered by all this... So today it is raining and I know the robin is good and wet as the lemon tree does not have a lot of leaves to cover her very well, almost want to tie an umbrella over her-----I know I know that is going to far. WOW! Just went out to snap a pic and there was another egg. So she has 2 done and 2 more to go, lol Here is a pic of the lemon tree and the nest.

P.S. yes she left the nest and it is raining and you can see it; raindrops on the eggs. Now for the amazing part, Nita grew this lemon tree from a seed in W. V. She gave it to me when it was about 12 inches in height. I brought it home and planted it in a larger pot and over the years it has grown to this size. I pruned it way back last fall, was just getting too large to bring into the house.

Turkey Buzzard, Oh what a STINK !!!

Turkey Buzzard feather

We are welcomed back home with a robin's nest blown down from a tree on the driveway with the remains of 4 broken eggs, at least they were not developed as of yet. I was so sad to see that. After leaving Nita's home in W.V. where I had been watching 3 baby Robins grow up and fledge the nest before we left. They had built their nest on the back porch of the home and on the side of the porch in the vine on the trellis at the end of the porch, there are DOVES and 2 eggs in the nest when we left. IF that was not great, there is also downstairs on the front porch another robin with 4 eggs in the nest of which 2 had hatched before we left. I just got to love God's country.

Our grass was so high we mowed and trimmed it before we did anything else. During the mowing, I ran into what I have been smelling while mowing the side of the yard, in the neighbor's yard where the remains of a raccoon, oh my did that smell, rode right up almost beside it. Nothing much left but fur and dried skin and maggots, but the next day I got to see up close a "turkey buzzard" in the yard next door picking on the remains, also collected a huge wing feather in my yard next to some bushes.
We do not know what killed the raccoon, this is the second raccoon killed around us. The neighbor did clean up the mess the next day.

Turkey Buzzard eating a Raccoon 

So then the next day went out and started digging up some more Iris because I am moving them into containers along with some other items around the home.

I made a huge homemade beef stew for supper the next day and decided that digging is not for me. Got my broken shoulder to hurting and now my one foot is real hurtful, something to do with eating too much red meat and uric acid. So now I am hopping around waiting for all that to settle down again.

I got my first ever doctor visit scheduled for next month by PHONE. All this because of the new flew bug running around. Everyone is wearing masks and gloves and using hand sanitizer and staying 6 or more feet away from each other.  It is the new world we live in, for now, don't much care for it, but got to stay safe.  I got to make some more masks for us also today.

In the meantime back in W.V. Larry got his last toe on his left foot removed, he is recovering just fine and feels great. All in the Rose Wood manor where Larry is are all negative for the virus and they are doing their best to keep it that way, it is shut down to everyone, no visiting anyone in there.

That is about it for this time around for now anyway.