Perch Baby Perch

Today I went over to my mom's house to help her, Old Bob, Jenn and Nick build a fence. I didn't make it that far though because I was distracted by a huge pile of chopped-down crab apple tree branches. I had already been thinking about making a big perch for Baby, and this was the perfect place to start.

I picked out a good chunk of tree and trimmed down it's branches. It was about four and a half feet tall and the branches I left had good angles for perching on and landing on. Mom and I went to Home Depot and picked up a big flower pot and a bag of rocks. All I had to do was put the branch in the pot and anchor it with the rocks.

Baby watched me as I was putting it together, and as I dragged it into place. As soon as it was done she flew straight to it and just hung out for about an hour. Here are a couple pictures of her on it.


Playing with the twist-tie hilding up the toy
(instead of the toy)


Preening


Checking out the bark


Looking out the window
(from her angle she can see out)


Finally playing with the toy
(I had to re-hang it, she untied the twist-tie shortly after the first picture)


Coming to find out what all these flashes were coming from.