July 31st Babies

Good morning everyone! It is still a 61°F morning, but we can already tell it isn’t going to warm up to 85°F like yesterday. A cold front passed us yesterday, bringing with it several storms that mostly just ruffled our feathers but caused power outages in other places in our county.  Today, it is cloudy and warm; the temperature will not pass 75°F. Another cold front and low pressure systems should bring the temperature back into the 50’s tonight with some wind and rain.

Speaking of feathers, look at these adorable robin babies! They seemed to have hatched yesterday and both mommy robin and daddy robin are taking good care of them. All credits go to non-blogging human who found them! I haven’t seen them and neither has blogging human because we don’t want to overwhelm the parents.

 Our human reports that both mommy and daddy robin were taking turns feeding the birds (he knows for sure that there were two because at one point, both of them were in the nest) and that mommy robin was fluffed up on the nest from time to time protecting her babies. They were also observed feeding whole worms to the babies. Can you believe that robin’s stomachs are developed to eat whole worms on the first day of their life?!

According to our human, the babies chirps are inaudible, except when you’re right next to them, and then they sound like “little pins dropping”. The mommy bird sounds like “an alien” in a slo-mo video, and also according to him, it was definitely the mommy standing guard over her chicks looking all important albeit “weary” while the daddy was out hunting.

Meanwhile, in my life, nothing remotely interesting has been going on – oh wait. I DID get hosed down yesterday and slathered with doggy shampoo. I thought it was very refreshing so I was a very good dog and stood still, but little Winstok squirmed so much it he had to be restrained in our human’s lap! Last time our human did this, Winston revenge-chewed her favorite flip-flop to shreds right in front of her. I wonder what he is plotting this time?

Our human is walking towards us with a smile and a vial of tick poison in her hand. Time to scram!

Love,

Mack

 

July 27th Hide and Seek

Good morning everyone! It is 51°F and the sun is shining! Can you believe it was only 48°F a couple days ago? Me neither. The temperature is getting to a solid 78°F-80°F midday these last two days, so that helps us forget the morning chills. Our human still has to dry us off from the morning dew every morning or we will shiver!

I have to say my favorite game is hide and seek. It is especially funny when my humans are calling and I pretend I can’t hear them! This can go badly if they realize I heard them all along. That’s what happened in this picture – I hid in the cattails while my human was walking by, then I played the guilt-dog by flattening my ears and looking sad.

Other creatures are playing hide and seek too around the property! Our other human found this robin’s nest with three eggs, took a picture, and forbade us all to walk near it again because the mama was getting upset. This morning we found an egg remnant not too far. Could they have hatched??

  

Our human also found an eastern newt in its “red eft” stage. Look at it playing hide and seek with a slug!

 Speaking of slugs, we find them by the dozen when raspberry hunting! Who would have thought they also enjoy my humans’ favorite berry?

Going on a raspberry scavenget hunt is my human’s favorite game these days. Look how many she found yesterday!

We are near a dry line now, and it seems we should enjoy dry weather for at least 24-48 hours more! We’ve been slacking at stacking wood (dogs can be punny too you know) so hopefully it will only rain when we are all done!

Enjoy your sunny weekend everyone, I’m going to go hide – is that an open car I see?! I love cars!

Love,

Mack