peckish birds

Amaranth tips on the Pool Side Strip were mysteriously - and skilfully - cut off a few weeks back.

I was going to just take the plants out to make space for carrots, but when I got around to doing that, some side leaves were growing out nicely. Fast forward to last week when I potted two chilli seedlings Rob gave me. A day or two after potting them out, I discovered its tips were gone, along with the new tips of the amaranth plants! 

I guess it's a bird that came by. I've made some mesh frames to keep the plants in that spot protected. 

On another note, there was a kookaburra sitting on the fence by the seedling station. Maybe it'll become a garden regular.