Greensboro Birds

Tootie surprised us today by laying her first egg! I found a pinky beige two-ouncer in the nestbox this morning alongside Lunch’s blue egg. We weren’t expecting it at all. My money had been on her waiting till May, when she’ll be about the same age that Lunch was when she first laid (37 weeks). [...]

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Happy loves to run, and Tito loves trying to keep up with her. For a dog with short legs, he does an admirable job of keeping up. Happy, after all, has a reputation for being the fastest dog of them all, but I think she does a fair amount of sandbagging for Tito’s sake. Tito [...]

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Happy and Tito have a favorite battle tactic: Grab the other dog’s leg to put him/her off balance and then grab the stick/bone/squeaky toy and run. You’d think Happy, being the larger dog, would have a distinct advantage. Surprisingly, the fight is pretty evenly matched, what with Tito’s multiple centers of gravity and overall tenacity. [...]

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Yesterday evening, Josh and I helped our neighbors through a difficult event. Their new puppy—the kids’ first pet—had taken ill suddenly on Monday, and unfortunately didn’t make it through Tuesday. While Josh and the boys and their mom worked together on the young pup’s grave, the youngest daughter and I discovered a robin’s nest in [...]

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