The Bird . . .

It has been cold recently, two cold snaps almost back to back.  The one last week lasted several days and we have just had a tough front come through where temperature 20 degrees during the day and plunge into freezing at night.

We have been dog sitting, our daughter-in-law had to come up from Austin to the D/FW area and there was no one to take care of the dog at their home.  Her husband, our son, was off to New Orleans so someone had to take care of the dog.  While we do not have any pets we have had dogs in the past so we decided to take care of Abbie, the black dog.

Abbie is a good guest but alas must visit outside from time to time to take of natures calls.  She is well house broken.  But going in and out raise a strange problem.  A small bird followed us into the house.  No one noticed for a while but then the bird got active with the warmth and started flitting around in the open living area.

We had to turn off all the lights and turn on the light on the back porch to attract the bird outside.  It took a while of chasing the bird around the room and it got tired of doing that.  So it took the option and flew out the door on to the patio.  Unfortunately for the bird, the back patio is now enclosed with screens.  So the bird spent the nigh on the porch in small corner.

This morning I got up to water the dog.  And the bird was still on the porch.  After the dog was taken care of I opened the back screened door and used the clip to hold it open. The bird noticed the open door and soon departed for the greater out doors.

But the point is that creatures will seek warmth and come into one's abode.  And we do need to take care and get them back out side where they belong.  This little Wren made it back into greater out doors again.  She had a respite of warmth, but had to helped out once again into its world away from our world.

It was strange but had a happy ending.