Life and Death

I found this bird's nest of 6 baby chicks on a shelf outside the screen door yesterday. At first I thought they'd been abandoned, so I looked up "Raise Baby Chicks" on the internet. Then my Aunt Issa told me they hatch there every year and the mother's never too far away. I was relieved because according to Avian.net it takes a lot of work to raise 6 baby chicks.

This morning I found 4 wings of a butterfly lying on the front walkway. I think Rupert probably snatched it right out of the air and decided to eat the meat and leave the rest. So far, I've seen him eat crickets, junebugs, stinkbugs (it occurs to me writing this that may have something to do with his breath), beetles and now butterflies.