Petunias and Birds

 

On to better things.

1. The petunias have really taken off. Michelle's not necessarily smitten with petunias, but they certainly do like the places we've planted them. I think they look great, and she agrees.

2. The baby birds have moved on. We hope under circumstances of being able to fly off and find lives beyond the hanging basket on the front porch, but we don't really know.

The internet tells me robin fledglings are fairly competent filers 10-15 days after hatching, which puts the time about right. It was amazing how quickly they grew. I don't know why I suspected I'd see adolescent birds flopping around the nest waiting for mom and dad to come home with a meal. . .

The birds' presence in the hanging basket didn't really do our petunias there much good, in part because I had to wire the irrigation dripper away from the center of the basket because the parent robins didn't like where it was hanging. I've taken that wire down and maybe the petunias will do better after that.