It's a bird eat bird world here today... but hopefully not in the literal sense. I'm sitting out with Beazley who is on ''bed rest'' as he has done some damage to one of the ligaments in his back leg. It sounds like the "excruciating" ligament - and while the pain he's suffering does seem severe, the proper name escapes me. He's been pretty good at not moving around - if he was a dog they would need to operate, but the treatment for cats is rest. How he can do that with all the racket the birds are making is beyond me. Some wagtails have built another of those incredible nests in the front tree and they were defending it this morning from five or six mynah birds, each at least twice as big as a wagtail. They were at the nest - one even appearing to be pecking at something in there, and despite the noise the wagtails were making and their attempts to shoo them away, they were not winning. In the end, I deciced I couldn't just watch it unfold and as I walked over, the mynahs flew away to the next tree to continue to watch, and the wagtails settled. Five minutes or so later, the mynahs took off in the direction of Nerang. M was saying that she thinks it may be too late for the wagtails. We'll have to wait to see if the mynahs do come back to claim the nest as their own - although how they could hope to fit into the nest - it's so tiny - is beyond me.
Pearl is still visiting Nana - and that's probably for the best while Beazley is on his "bed rest". It would be much more difficult leaving food out for Beazley if Pearl was in the area - although, it might be that Pearl would be good company for him. The other cats, while they appear interested, don't seem to be spending a lot of time with him - which could be a good sign!
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