SoCS August 25, 2018
The prompt for the Stream of Conscious Saturday, August 25, 2018 is “Notice.”
My husband and I divide up the jobs of gardening. He mows the lawn once a week. I do everything else. I take care of twenty-four rose bushes, sixteen Date palms, three hibiscus trees, two plum trees, one apple tree, and all the smaller plants and annual flowers. The Date palms are getting taller than me. It takes a lot of energy to trim them. I let them grow for almost nine months without doing anything.
When we came back from our Portland trip before summer, I trimmed two or three palm trees a week. At least I could finish in five weeks. When I came to one palm, I trimmed the leaves from the lower ring and moved up. Out of a sudden, I NOTICE a bird nest. It horrified me. When female birds are incubating, they don’t like noises or movements. Trimming the palm leaves exposed the nest means the female bird wouldn’t come back to the nest.
I grabbed a bunch of leaves and arranged them to surround the nest. After that, I observed for the whole afternoon, peeking out the window. There were no birds nearby. I got a step stool and got up high enough to take a few photos of the nest. There was one small egg in it. I went on the website to search for similar eggs. The search showed the robin eggs look like the egg I found in the nest.
After observing the nest with the egg in it for many days, I decided that it was an abandoned egg. My research showed that some female bird senses something wrong in the eggs and abandon them. I wouldn’t find out the truth because we were not home when the birds built the nest and the female bird laid the egg.
I kept the egg!
Linda G Hill: SoCS August 25, 2018 – Notice
The Showers of Blessings 
Beautiful pics!
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Thank you so much!!
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Wow!
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Beautiful garden Miriam. A Mother’s instinct is so true even in birds. Thanks for sharing Miriam, it’s the first time to know about that.
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Thank you, Nahla. I didn’t know about the birds’ instinct until I looked it up. 🙂
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what a beautiful yard!!
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Sorry, Michele, I missed this comment and it was sitting in the spam folder. Thank you so much for your comment. I enjoy my garden very much. It calms me a lot. ❤
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This is such a lovely SOCS post, Miriam. The bird’s egg is very pretty; it is a pity it is abandoned. Maintaining your garden is a lot of work but it is very beautiful and rewarding.
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Thank you very much, Robbie. I think the strong wind had something to do with it while we were gone.
I expanded my garden a little bit at a time and gardening is therapeutic to me, so I don’t mind the work, just need time management…
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You have wonderful garden! 🙂 May I know the name of flowers in second photo…love the colors!
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Thank you, Jui for your reading and comment. Those flowers are snapdragons. If you hold the flower and squeeze (snap) it up and down, the “mouth” of the flower open and close. I think that’s the reason it got the name snapdragon. You can get them in any nursery or garden shops. Hope you get some and enjoy them! 🙂
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what a lovely name!Thank you for sharing interesting info. I am sure Snapdragons will be a great addition to my garden. 🙂
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When you do have snapdragons in your garden, please post the photos and send me the link, I love to see them. 🙂
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Sure I will! 🙂
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They are annual flowers. I have to get some again next year. 🙂
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What a beautiful, colorful garden, Miriam! Sad for the abandoned egg…
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Thank you, Amy! I was shocked and sad about that also.By the way, I’m going to write the Tuesday Travel Highlight and I’ll write about our trip to Amsterdam. I would include a link to your post about the Houseboats along the channel. 🙂
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Thank you so much, Miriam for making a link on your Travel post.
I have enjoyed your travel stories and photos and looking forward to more. 🙂
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Thank you, Amy. I’m still writing it and hope to post it in an hour. 🙂
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Such a shame about the egg Miriam but you did all you could. Your garden is looking lovely. 🌼
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Thank you, Brigid. When I found out one nest lost 4 eggs three years ago, I was heartbroken and searched on the web of what could have happened.
This time around, I searched again. But it’s in nature.
Thank you for liking my garden, Brigid. ❤
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Lovely landscaping! ♥
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Thank you so much for reading and comment, Billy. I appreciate that. ❤
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Lovely post Miriam, you have a beautiful garden 💜
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Thank you so much, Willow. It’s my sanctuary for therapy. ❤
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❤ 🙂
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Such beautiful greenery & flowers! It’s sad to see an abandoned nest, but interesting that the female may ‘sense’ something wrong with the eggs and leave them, which may or may not have happened here as you found other nests on the ground. xx
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Thank you so much for your comment. Apparently there was strong wind while we were gone. When I search the web, most of the images have more than one eggs in the nests. So something might have happened to cause the female bird to go away. I do have many bird stories in my garden, probably I have enough trees for the birds to build nests. 🙂 xox
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Beautiful Miriam!
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Thank you so much, Dwight!
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It is a pity when the nest gets abandoned. You did well to make sure it was OK. I am not sure the gardening chores are all that even lol
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Thank you, Brian. I didn’t want him to touch my plants and flowers, then I got more and more flowers and plants, so I did it to myself. 🙂
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Beautiful photos of your garden Miriam, I can’t help thinking that your husband gets it easier just mowing the grass 😉
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Thank you, Elaine. In fact, other than the palm trees, I didn’t want him to touch my plants and flowers. My fault. 🙂 I just paid to have the palm trees trimmed. 😉
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wow – nice story – even though sad too – and I have accidentally disturbed a few nests and now I am extra careful too – and love the landscaping
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and I emailed you a little note
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I got your note. Thank you. I’ll practice on it tomorrow. In fact, I found three nests on the ground when we came back. It must have been the Santa Ana wind. It was so sad.
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yes – it is sad- and then also part of the cycle of life – but still not easy
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