Where Did They Go?

We love to sit on our back deck and watch the birds, insects and animals.  While our backyard is tiny, a forty-foot berm, part of which Aloma has planted in shrubs and flowers, gives us privacy and attracts every type of fauna.  We’re watched deer and a fox go by on their way to who-knows-where.  A rabbit gives us fits when he eats our plants.  Ducks and an occasional turtle use our backyard to move between ponds.

Butterflies and bees love Aloma’s flowers.  Our Moon Flowers open at dusk and a Clearwing Moth comes to drink nectar.  They look just like hummingbirds until one enters a flower and then it’s obvious it’s a moth.  Chameleons seem to know us and don’t even hide when we’re around.

It is a virtual zoo.

But we like the birds the best.  During spring and summer they came in droves to our birdfeeder and birdbath.  Cardinals, mockingbirds, brown thrushes, goldfinches, doves, wrens, robins, bluebirds, purple finches and an occasional hawk all give us a show.  They enjoy our backyard and then bring their young to show them the birdfeeder and birdbath.

But by August they were gone.  We’ve only seen an occasional mockingbird and wren since then.  We wonder where they go.  Do they go to the mountains to get away from the dog days of summer or do they go to the seashore?  We don’t know.

But they will return any time now, stay through the winter and then raise another brood in the spring.

We hope they had a good vacation but look forward to their return.

Seasoned Man

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