Baby Bird - Brown Shirk

Our micro garden has birds was chirping like very loudly.  So I look out and found a baby with 2 adult birds very excited and flustered.  I was worried about frightening the baby or rather fledging.  So I took videos from inside.  There is no sounds as I took the video from inside glass door of my house.  The baby is hidden in the dark but you can see it in the middle of the screen.  We always feel very happy to have birds building nests in our house.  Olive Back Sunbird - first-baby-olive-back-sunbird-is-out

Daddy?  Maybe Mummy

Baby is in the middle of the screen.  Use full screen to locate the baby

Grasshoppers!

I have been growing plants and vegetables for a long time now.  I always get lots of snails and will catch them at night especially after rain.  Snails are big eaters and destroys my orchids and other plants.  Recently, I managed to grow rice and discover some grasshoppers.  Since then, there are lots of holes on my brinjal plant.  I thought it might be caterpillars but could not find any.

Yesterday, as I was getting rid of tiny white flies in the sweet potato leaves, something jumps out.  On closer look I saw a tiny grasshopper in the leaf.  Then I saw another grasshopper on the brinjal leaves.  So I found the answer to all the holes in the leaves.  It was the grasshoppers.

I killed 2 or 3 by squashing them.  This morning, more grasshoppers.  It is going to be a challenge to keep my plants from eaten up.

My Friend Boh Tong is planting well in Japan

Boh Tong is growing lots of stuff in Japan.  He has a green thumb!  I am experimenting as well.  Recently, I managed to grow some rice.  They looked like grass in the beginning and suddenly the green padi appears.  It is like magic!

Young Padi Shoots