Thanks for not being mad Ms. Jean ,i do get overeager sometimes and totally miss stuff. Love your sunny bottom birdie. I think those are great pictures! That's definitely the little bird i have been seeing all week. They are fun to watch because they are so quick. They are really hunting the grass for bugs i guess because they are constantly on the ground flashing their little yellow bottoms :-) Thanks so much for the pictures. Awww Brenda, you dont have the little fluffy vacuum cleaner wrens? They have so much personality and are so much fun to watch. They are so naughty too :-) i just love love love them! They follow all the other birds around and see what they are interested in and then they start liking it too. That of course makes the other birds mad so then the chase begins and it looks like a game of peek a boo because they are so small and fast the other birds can never catch them! LOL....If one bird likes a nest box then the little Carolina wren likes it. If somebody hides food then the little wren eats it. If somebody is guarding a certain tree then that is the tree the wren wants to be in. If somebody likes guarding a vine then thats the vine the wren wants to be in, and on and on and on. They are so mischievous and fun to watch , i laugh all the time at their antics. They are just so naughty and cute. Wish i could send you some but i only have one pair and i would surely miss them just to much. They even pick the bugs off of our cars and every bug off every hanging plant too. Yep they are just so wonderful. Little reddish fluff balls with big beaks and big voices! LOL....I hope you get some, Brenda they are wonderful. I saw a male Northern flicker today and i never realized how big they are, and their beaks are huge too! Lol...I never ever want to make one of them mad. So pretty though and very shy. I have always heard them but never saw them. Very exciting for me to finally put a real face (and beak) to that wild call they have. He hung on the very tip of a branch to pluck dogwood berries and the northern mocking bird that guards that tree didn't mess with him either. I dont blame him! LOL...Bonnie

I don't remember how long it takes for cocoons to hatch but I think it's about 3 wks./30 days or so, maybe longer depending on bin condition. So, in the meantime, more food and bedding got added on top of cocoons waiting to hatch while the rest of the population follow their noses (that they don't have) to new food. Once they hatch, it will take a long(er) way for babies to catch up to the big boys and gals. I imagine babies will feed on whatever is around them, what the boys and gals leave behind. Once bigger and stronger, I imagine they try to burrow up? Do they have an instinct that make them travel up? I think so because they are surface dwellers, right? And by the time they catch up, they'll be toddlers and juvies. What I usually have on the lids are mites and gnats, on some occasions worms (not babies). Don't remember seeing pot worms there. The pot worms in my bins stay around/in the food and in the wet bedding around food.

I wish I could come and I'm sorry I can't make it either Moni, DH and I will be on vacation and not close to Ok or Tx, take lots of pictures, please and have a great time ;o) Sorry you have to be in the hospital Rita, ;o( hugs! GettogethersaresomuchfunIhatetomissonethatissoclosetome!

I, too, hope that you're having a great one! And, from a fellow thankful to be enjoying good health at past 80 ... good wishes for a great year ahead. ole joyful