So I've had a busy morning. Took a trashcan, half a wire coat hanger, a couple of boards, and an empty toilet paper roll and built a mousetrap. We'll see how it doesover the next week.
Warm day (pushing 60f) so have been out working on cleaning the coop. 5 wheelbarrows out and not finished yet. Had feathered helpers sporadically.
Cheetah kept calling out alerts. Doves, magpies, starlings....all slightly different sounds. Then I heard one I've never heard from him before: the pair of hawks that nested in the willow trees up the creek a ways are back. He used that sound EVERY time they circled past. All the hens froze and watched until hawk passed by. I'd been thinking him a bit of a teenage ding a ling, alerting to everything. Hearing that sound made me realize he was calling out aerial birds vs DANGEROUS aerial birds. Ladies have been crossing the yard via sheltered locations, until he started crowing again. Guessing is the all clear sound?
