Eagle Watch

On Sunday, the massacres began. On Saturday we had 31 chicks. Now there are twenty eight. On Sunday a big hawk/eagle swooped down and plucked up one of the chicks and carried it away. That was at about 4:30 PM. On Monday, at precisely 4:30 the eagle/hawk do the very same thing.  On Tuesday, we thought we were smart and went outside at 4:15 ish and stood watch until 5:00 PM. Clearly we had won.

At 6:30 on Tuesday night... he struck again. So tomorrow Len, Bill and Sam are building a big chicken house. But today we stood watch... and all the chicks are safe.

We find this funny. But chicks can be sold for 300 ks. Three hundred kenya shilling is what many people make in THREE days. So while we giggle over our vigilance, someone in a place very near to us would have lost three days pay.

Second pic is after Len got really serious about the eagle and "went Masai " on him