Take in the Welcome Mat

It was a rare sighting at our house. Although Brown-headed Cowbirds are common in our area, we had not previously seen them. I was not very happy to find these brood parasites hanging around our little songbirds.

Two males stayed around most of the morning. We didn't see any females and by early afternoon the two males had left the area. We were glad to see them go.

We know they are simply living the best way they can but we are happy they have decided to live elsewhere.

Although we pulled the bird welcome mat from the cow birds, we have a really big welcome mat out for my good friend who will be visiting this week. I am absolutely blessed to have two really close friends and she is one of them. We will have a wonderful week together no matter what we decide to do.

So while I welcome this dear friend, I will vacate the blog for a week. While I have some ideas, I do not have "canned" posts to pre-post. So I'll be back next Monday.

HAVE A TRULY WONDERFUL WEEK!!!