Wild Life

There was a bird nest on our fence. Biajee found it earlier this week. There were four blue eggs in the nest. Biajee accidentially dropped two of them and one was broken. He placed the fallen egg back into the nest. The mother bird has been sitting on the eggs every day.

We were eating hot pot for lunch today while Biajee found a snake right outside of our dining room window. It was about four feet long and 3 inches in diameter. We called the Bentonville police twice, but the lady who answered the phone told us that they didn't deal with snakes. She said that snakes were dormant during the day and would walk away at night.

The snake was waiting under the bird nest to eat the bird eggs and birds. Biajee took a shovel and went outside to kill the snake. We bagged the body of the dead snake into a woven shoebag and threw it in a dumpster.

It appeared to be a rattlesnake. Biajee followed it around our yard. If it had gone away by itself, Biajee wouldn't have gone ahead and killed it. He was just worried about the kids and me going out to the yard and being attacked.

Such was our excitement this weekend.