Whoa! We've been de-treed!

I mentioned that the City of Austin had tree-trimming crews in the neighborhood. They stopped by and left us a description of the 5 trees they were going to remove (small hackberrys) and the two trees they were going to trim - but they didn't mention that if there were smaller trees between the 5 they were going in the chipper too. Here's the before and after:

The view toward the house in back of us - before.

The view toward the house in back of us - now.

The corner toward the Nichols - then.

The corner toward the Nichols - now.

I feared the trim job on the Bramblett pecan.

But they didn't take too much there.

I do think it set our birdwatching back significantly. I saw a Cardinal down by the fence, looking around as if saying, "What the @#$% happened here? I went to work this morning and every thing was fine. I come home to a pile of sawdust!"