Monday, January 27, 2014

Country Girl Life

"Mama, mama, come quick!  Blossom #2 found a Morning Dove and Blossom #1 caught it!"

"Really?"

I grabbed the camera and took off, just grateful that they weren't yelling to me about a bear or something.  (There was a bear attack just across the road a month and a half ago.) 


The story is that we have a net over our meat chicken pen because the hawks were feasting on our meat chicks.  We outsmarted the hawks.  Now that the pen is empty, the Morning Dove squeezed in through the side one day and the girlies found her trying to fly out. 

It was SO beautiful to see a Morning Dove up close.  I was sad to have to share with them that she must have her freedom and they would not be keeping her as a pet.  But, away she flew, unharmed and thankful for her freedom again.  I ended up with good photos for the scrapbooks.