Territorial Tuesday - Birds in the park

While my sister was visiting us, we decided to check out one of the park in our area.  It was a nice crisp morning and there were not that many people around.  Before we got too far, I noticed a small stage and I instructed my sister to follow me.  We asked Jeff to take a video of us.  What my sister did not know was that we will be doing some type of dancing.  I took my phone and found a song that we would dance to.  Jeff was holding his camera for the video and my phone for the music.  Luckily we finished the video before a couple who was walking in the park was heading in our direction.  Unfortunately, I cannot show you the video, but we had a good laugh watching it later.  As we continued our walk in the park, we noticed a lot of pigeons.  Apparently there was a a group of people feeding the birds.  As we get closer they started flying towards me, and of course I started to scream because it reminds me of the movie "The Birds".  I started walking towards another area of the park and took some photos of the ducks who were so calm and almost posing for the photographer.

The people who were feeding the birds.

My sister and I always try to get a photo like this when we are together.

Tweet Tuesday - Ted and Sylvia

They are back.  That's right, Ted and Sylvia are the two birds that built a nest in our backyard deck.  This time they decided to build one at a lower area right across our bedroom sliding door.  Jeff tries very hard to put some barrier in certain areas of the backyard deck so that the birds don't build their nest.  One of the reason for this is that they are messy in their droppings and most times it will be on top of our BBQ or the table or chairs, etc.  The other reason is that they get very noisy when they are protecting the babies and can get a bit annoying.  Jeff did not realize that they have started another nest so by the time he noticed it, the nest is almost complete.  Do you know how hard it is for those birds to collect all the twigs and build this tiny place for the eggs?  I told Jeff to let them be, this time only, and once they've had the babies, then he can issue the Eviction Notice. 

This was taken a couple of weeks ago when they were searching for a great spot.

It seems like they decided not to finish the nest as they try adding more twigs but it keep falling.

After yesterday, I think Jeff won't be issuing the notice at all.  He will have to just clean up the mess that Ted and Sylvia left.  This is the reason why Jeff does not like them building their nest because he always ends up cleaning their mess.  Unfortunately they did not give us a deposit, which means another loss.

Maybe Monday - How do they do that?

When you hear the birds tweeting and making different kinds of sound around our front door, I knew that something is going on.  For the past couple of days, we were not checking the special part where they like to build their nest.  Then all of a sudden, there it was, in not time they have built it.  So my husband brought it down and I took a picture and then he moved them to the backyard tree where it is more convenient for them to start their family.  It is amazing how it only took them a couple of days to collect all the twigs and leaves and construct the nest. 

Made by two very small birds.

These flowers were grown by my MIL's neighbor.  It was so bright and pretty.