Texas Forest Stewardship award

Texas Forest Stewardship award
In 2007 we received a Texas Forest Stewardship award. L-R; Susan Sander, Sherry Collins, Clay Bales, Tom Collins

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Bad Day for Buntings

Sherry and I watched as two male and one female Painted Bunting chased each other around the back yard and one male and female collided with our window.  The Male was KOI, while the female lay there with some visible sign of her heart still beating.  I picked her up and held her for several minutes until she began to regain some degree of controlled movement.  Decided to place her in a shoe box with a towel to keep her body temp up.  A few minutes later Sherry called to say our little lady had escaped her shoe box and was now sitting on the dinning room chair.  I manged to walk up behind her and grab her, then to the door where she gave one more jerk and the typical bunting chip, and off she flew.  I'm still sick about the male, but these guys are know to be very aggressive to each other and sometimes will fight to the death.


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