About two hundred trees to trim and twentyfive thousand square feet to fence, at least with light animal wire to keep out the coyotes and in the dog, kept me busy for weeks. The yard was definitely starting to look better when we discovered a disgusting pest nested inside the coral tree branches. It's a huge whitish larva of a boarer which can eat a live tree in two years. And when it's done with one tree, it attacks the others around. Therefore, to my dismay, the old coral tree had to be cut to the ground. This was the last step of this huge tree-trimming stretch and no matter how convinced that it was the right thing to do, I was still sad to see the gorgeous tree forever gone.
That's when I lifted my head toward the foliage of the Chinese Elm that is shading the entrance of my house. There a beautiful falcon had just landed on a branch, swift and light. I noticed the nest that had been hidden before. Actually, there are three of them. Two more in the olive tree. So now I am wondering. Imagining who the new visitor can be. I'm fine with hawks as long as they respectthe squirrells.These are too friendly to make me wish to get rid of them. But I would welcome whatever big bird is housed there. After all, these are my neighbors and they were here long before I moved in.
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