Here are a couple of catch up stories, snakes and birds.
A couple of days ago I was laying out the lines for the irrigation system when I noticed one of my dogs chewing on something. I wandered over to take a look and saw it was an egg. Something odd about it but I was busy and went on with what I was doing. The next day the crew showed up to start the dig and I watched as one of the guys was cracking open an egg similar to the one the dog was chewing on; what had been odd was that the egg shell was leathery and I had been thinking bird, so I asked why he was using sticks to open the egg and he pried the occupant out and showed it to me, a cobra. There were a dozen eggs, all near hatching. Had it not of been for an accidental fire burning some brush that was covering the nest we would never have know. Still don�t know where mom and pop are.
Yesterday I was walking out of the house heading for the new pond when I spy a dozen cormorants circling towards me. They have been gone for several months and it was the first I had seen of them. As they approached my old pond they split into pairs and headed to their old haunts, I am guessing here, the two assigned to pillage the drainage ditches that ar now part of the new pond circled lower and just brushed the tree tops as they prepared for their landing, they flared their tail feathers and entered a stall web feet forward in preparation for landing, when all of the sudden, abort, abort, only water, no place to land. They are able to save it, pull up and head to parts unknown. Today same dozen, but none over fly the new pond. I am taking that as a good sign.
