This post began as a general farm post until I noticed that every photo involved birds in some way. The fantail pigeons are successfully raising another couple of squabs. They were just a few days old when I took this photo:
All the fantail pigeons seem happy and healthy:
The bantams run out to see the cows when I first let them out in the morning:
Only a couple of the pigeons have been going outside, but their numbers have been increasing. I've noticed that they usually only go out in the morning, when the weather and the metal roof are not yet too hot:
And sometimes the pigeons and chickens hang out together:
And speaking of hot metal roofs:
A rare sight - six fantail pigeons, all the way up on the barn roof:
Here are those same two babies, just a few days older than the first photo:
A regular barnyard assembly, this photo taken from my back porch:
The chickens don't miss an inch of the mowed part of the property. In this case, they were searching for bugs and other edibles in the front yard:
And speaking of birds, I was on the riding mower along the side of the road when a brown bird flushed out and fluttered about three feet away. Afraid I'd injured a bird, I got out to investigate. It turned out to be a baby Snipe, or Woodcock:
He was a cute little fella (or girl), but clearly not happy to see me. Snipes are not often seen, and even less often seen this closely. I was glad it wasn't hurt and grateful to have had such a close view of a special wild bird:
