From: Robert Comer 

>Circle of life...

Yep.

>The bluebird house is on a metal pole with a cylindrical shield, it's
>going to take one smart snake to get these guys.  A cat might jump
>from the fence to the house tho.

The Cardinals set up shop in one of our large rose bushes.  (Roses grow
*great* around here once you get the soil right!)

>One has hatched and the other 3 are still roasting out there in the
>back yard.  Just bought some more tasty mealworms to help out,
>although there are plenty of bugs for these guys to devour.  Now I
>have to be concerned about the pesticides I use to kill the mole
>crickets.  Always something in the kingdom to worry over.

These kind of worries aren't all that worrisome for some reason.  In fact,
I think they reduce stress levels.

--
Bob Comer



On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:59:52 -0400, Richard B.  wrote:

>On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:30:31 -0400, Robert Comer
> wrote:
>
>>We had a second batch of Cardinal's recently, but a snake got them. :(
>
>Circle of life...
>
>The bluebird house is on a metal pole with a cylindrical shield, it's
>going to take one smart snake to get these guys.  A cat might jump
>from the fence to the house tho.
>
>One has hatched and the other 3 are still roasting out there in the
>back yard.  Just bought some more tasty mealworms to help out,
>although there are plenty of bugs for these guys to devour.  Now I
>have to be concerned about the pesticides I use to kill the mole
>crickets.  Always something in the kingdom to worry over.
>
>- Richard

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