ldquo The baby birds will fly tomorrow rdquo My wife Cari was elated about the progress a family of wrens was making in a hanging basket on our front porch She rsquo d watched them daily taking pictures as the mother brought food to the nest Cari got up early the next morning to look in on them She moved some of the greenery aside covering the nest but instead of seeing baby birds the narrow eyes of a serpent met hers The snake had scaled a vertical wall slithered into the nest and devoured them all Cari was heartbroken
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