Well I have been home for a week or so and trying my best to get some yard work caught up… you know, mowing and trimming and other stuff… While mowing I bumped the sparrow trap that I had not but “bait” in or done anything with since early spring so I figured I better get it set to capture the new hatch of sparrows in the area… The new ones are generally pretty stupid about such things and easily caught. Well put some seed in and set it up for a capture Friday evening, then forgot about it. Yesterday evening I figured I better check it out and reload some “bait”… surprise, surprise, surprise… I had caught some birds but then a snake had caught them, eat them, and then got caught in the trap…
hard to tell but it appeared to be about 4 or 5 ft. long… not too big around, it had swallowed the two sparrows on the right then passed them out when it got it’s head caught in the trap door that it must have come in? It’s jaws were still out of place when it attempted to get out through the mesh and now it was hung up.
Sorry but this snake didn’t survive the extraction process…
oh well, two sparrows eliminated anyway…
The other night was supposed to be a big moon special… It was here…
Pretty damn big don’t you think?
Actually had a little zoom on that one and this was how it looked normal..
Since it was World Team Trials for wrestling, and we had tickets, we went to the evening sessions. interesting as it is different than NCAA wrestling, and moves a lot faster… we did ok… got one on the Senior men’s team and two on the Junior men’s Free Style for 2013… A couple of the ones we figured to make the team didn’t due to injury or ? Still not too bad… in the process we came across a movie star watching the trials… I guess he was a wrestler in high school and did two years in college according to his bio… he is supporting the “save Olympic wrestling” and was doing some interviews…
Beyond all that activity I have just been working on the yard… Got a new edger today and worked it out… rather it worked me out… I have a lot of concrete edge!
I have also noticed some late bloomers here… I thought most of the birds had finished up the nesting but guess not…
look close it is a mocking bird guarding the nest… and
4 rather large mouths to feed…
I was also playing with the zoom when I spotted the birds and caught this butterfly… they sure like the white flowers we have…
And in an effort to capture unusual things… I got this one…
Sound kind of UCK! to me…
WD0AJG