I saw a bird fly up to the wire just before Dad and I came home from picking up dinner today. It was a little too large for our large pigeons. It's head was a little too large, too. I thought it was shaped more like a raptor... maybe a small owl or hawk ( Read more... )

The feral (once tame/now wild) chickens who run around our neighborhood were certainly out today. Meanwhile, the Big Island Recorder Society met at our house again. This produced....

"Hey, rooster! Rooster, crow in tune!" -- Dad

{GIGGLE GIGGLE GIGGLE GIGGLE GIGGLE GIGGLE}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

As I've mentioned, feral chickens started appearing in our yard early last year. Some of them wandered up to our yard from where their former owners kept them before letting them loose. Others appeared later -- witness at least three batches of chicks. {chuckle, SMILE ( Read more... )

My parents and I seem to have a new hobby: feeding chickens. We've been pursuing this for several weeks now; we're most of the way thru our second large bag of chicken feed. {chuckle, Smile, BIG SMILE ( Read more... )

Our neighbor came over bearing lima beans and a pineapple from their garden today. They do have a lovely garden; I do understand why she doesn't want wild chickens and chicks scratching it up all the time. {SMILE ( Read more... )

Momma hen has been losing a lot of chicks this time. The day after I last wrote about her, she had eight chicks instead of nine. A couple days later, she was down to seven. Then she lost three at once, right in the middle of the day, so she was down to four. {pause ( Read more... )

Does anyone remember the chickens that started turning up in our yard last year? Well, there have been some interesting developments this year…. ( Here chick chick chick chick chick )

Dad says our neighbors now plan to take any chickens they catch in the future to the Humane Society. {smile} They are looking into getting chicken-traps from them, too. Hopefully this will work better. {BIG SMILE}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

"What are we going to do with all these chickens?!?"

-- a chicken farmer talking to our neighbors while they were "relocating" certain chickens.

{Chuckle, SMILE, REALLY BIG GRIN, LOTS AND LOTS OF LAUGHTER}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin