It’s always Autumn in England

This morning, when I walked outside to go to work, I noticed a bird’s nest on my porch. If I had not been running late, I would have gone back in the house to get the camera and take a picture. I will do that tonight when I am home.

The nest was not there yesterday, so they built it quickly. I am writing about it because, I don’t know much about birds. I know many are sensitive to human smells and if you touch eggs, babies, the parent won’t come back. I told Evan to get a ladder and see if there are any eggs in it yet.

My concern is this, we have 4 cats that love to sit on the porch. I would HATE to see my cats kill any babies, and I know William would do just that. I know that is nature, and cats kill birds, but if I can move the next to the tree 5 feet away and it would not affect the birds, I think they would have a greater chance of survival.

Anyone got any experience with birds building nests on their front porch? I will take a picture tonight, so you can see where it is at. My favorite part of the nest is that the birds found a popped balloon and used the string in the nest. The popped balloon is hanging down, which is what I noticed first this morning.

We moved in last weekend. We have spent two nights in our house so far! It is nice to have our own space again. The cats freaked out for the first couple hours and we had 3 of the 4 hiding under our bed for several hours. Harry ventured out first and walked through the whole house, before joining the others under the bed!

Chica did not want to come out of her cat carrier, so I took the top off and picked her up. She seemed fine after that. She is really my cat, so I think she was just waiting for me to get her out.

Chaucer  has spent the most time under the bed and although she comes out, that has always been her favorite place to sleep, so it’s really not that unusual.

William is already meowing to go outside. I’m really not sure how long we can keep him inside for before he drives me crazy. I think I would like to wait until this weekend to let him outside, that way I know he is settled in the house.

Other than that, we do not have internet at the house, so I may not be updating very often on here or Facebook. I can usually get the internet on my phone, but sometimes it is tempermental about what websites I can get onto. This also means we are not checking our emails unless we are at work, so if you really need us, call our cell phones!