A visitor in my garden....

I had a special visitor in my garden this evening!
I went out to water my pots and hanging baskets on the driveway and all around the back yard.

This has become an "every day" chore, due to the hot temps and no showers so far this week. Sometimes I water in the morning, & other days I wait till after supper and enjoy the setting of the sun & the start of dusk....& it was just a touch cooler out there tonight.

See if you can see something unusual about this picture.....look closely....


Do you see it?.....look very very close....look just under the pink geraniums....

A baby mockingbird!!! He was sitting so still. I had seen a mockingbird chirping at me earlier in the day on the fence. I really didn't pay her much attention....

So tonite I was so surprised to find this little bird. I had been watering all around (& over his head too! haha!)

...and he never jumped down or made a peep at all!

In fact, after I saw him, I told him "Boy, I bet you're hot here on this pavement....let me cool you down a little"...and I gave him an easy spray with the hose and he still never moved! What a good baby....staying right where mom left him I guess! I just had to take his picture!

I went on about my watering in the back yard & was out there a good 30 to 45 minutes and when I came back by, he was still clinging to his post under the geraniums! Hope no neighborhood kitty's find him over night....mom was close by, so maybe she'll get him to move before dark!

"His eye is on the sparrow....

and I know HE watches me."