Another summer guest

Remember my blog from May 21? At that time I told you about the house finch couple that had settled inside our antique wicker, fly-fisherman basket under our back porch. Guess what? That family (the parents and their two chicks) decided to vacate their home 10 days later and sub-leased the place, without asking us, to a huge and menacing bumble-bee; all had met at a wing-repair shop a few days before they settled on a mutually beneficial deal. Today, I presented the new tenant with his eviction papers; we had to struggle for a while, but at the end, evicted he stayed. I then proceeded to pack the basket with air pillow bags and hang it back on the wall. Unless some flying squatter deflates each compartment with its beak, there won’t be much room available inside!