Birds

Sometimes I feel like Snow White. We have a bunny burrow under our shed, a family of chipmunks in our front yard, a opossum that lives in the neighbors yard next door and my favorite, birds in our bird house out of my kitchen window. 

I have so enjoyed watching Mama and Daddy bird (Bonnie and Clyde and no, I didn't know those were murders/ thieves when I named them )build their nest and listen to the chicks chirp waiting for Mama. 

I haven't named the babies yet and from what I hear, I think there are three in there but I only ever see two sticking their heads out. The bird on the right it the loud one. She is always talking, all. day. long!

And here is baby Chip. He is less than 1 1/2" tall, and a bit slower than the rest of the chipmunks but he is totally my favorite and completely unafraid of me. I love seeing him putter about. While we were in Vegas having our HVAC system replaced (story on the coming) chip snuck into the house. He was upstairs for a day. Jakob could hear him rummaging around and went upstairs to investigate. After not seeing anything he went back to bed. He came home the next day and chip was under the kitchen table, Jakob eventually got him out. When I came home from Vegas there was little Chip poop ALL over the house. It was in the living room, and in the kids rooms, on the floor and on both of their beds. I was amazed at how much a chipmunk could poop. Despite all that I still love little Chip.

Our New Neighbours

 We have some new neighbours in our yard. This is Chuck. He's a woodchuck and doesn't technically live in our yard, but we see him from time to time. 

 These little guys have taken up residence in Jakob's new grass patch. So far I have seen four of them but who knows how many there are. E has named the Mama Crystal. Jakob named one Woodstock and i have named one Truman. I think Duke decided to name his Spike, but the jury is still out on that one.

 We have a perfect view of their hole from our front window.

Oh Kansas and your wildlife!