Delicate

Dietes bicolor blooming in my backyard. It looks delicate, but it is pretty tough really.

Sometime after 7:30 last night, one of the blackbird babies disappeared. The youngest and least developed is gone. I don't think it would have been able to jump out of the nest, so perhaps it was pushed, or maybe someone sat on its head and suffocated it. Whatever happened, now there are only 3 hungry mouths to be fed.