Birds

The birds are at it again. Yesterday we went to feed the horses and Tuffee, our border collie, kept going to the back of our almost empty hay shed then coming back to nose us and go back to the back again. Deciding to take a look we found two young sparrows nestled down in the hay at the back of a bale. They had some feathers but couldn't fly yet. Not knowing what else to do we left the babies there. We were just glad that Tuffee had been very good and showed us the little things rather than eating them. Not that I am overtly concerned about a couple of sparrows as we have a huge over abundance of them. These are the house sparrow or english sparrow that was brought to the US in about 1850 to get rid of worms on shade trees in New York. I guess they did and multiplied rapidly making their way west across the US until now they are bird that is most seen anywhere in our country.
Still they are little birds and I like birds as they eat many of the bugs and spiders that are on our property.
Later in the afternoon I checked on the babies again and could only find one and at the last feed of the day I couldn't find any of them.
I hope they were able to start flying enough to get back to the nest or more likely out into the world and into a tree.