Friday, April 10, 2009

Birds

A few weeks ago we "temporarily" moved a fake ficas tree onto the front porch. We were planning on leaving it there for a couple of days while trying to decide where to place it plus it was a little dusty and we were planning on just spraying it off with the water hose. Well it turned out that we left it out there for a week and when we went to move it inside this is what we found....



granted the eggs weren't in there yet but there was no way we were going to tear down that robin's nest. She had worked so hard so we decided to leave it alone until she laid and hatched her eggs. About a week later the robin had laid 4 little blue eggs. The kids love that she is out there and laugh when we get ready to leave and go out on the front porch...she sometimes flies out of the nest and other times doesn't. She has almost flown into Taylor's head a few times :)

We also have a ginny wren that has built her nest over the light fixture. She is sitting so we assume their are eggs (she hardly ever flies out now). We haven't been able to get a picture since she doesn't leave real often plus my grandmother said she will leave her nest if we bother her too much so we are leaving her alone. Hopefully we can get some pictures once the eggs hatch.

We look forward to all the eggs hatching and being able to see the baby birds :)

5 comments:

April said...

How fun that you get to watch the bird's nest full of eggs! We were able to do that several years ago. Very cool to see the whole process. Take lots of pics!

Mommy to those Special Ks said...

Absolutely ok! :)

Cindy said...

What a great story! I love that!! Once we had a robin build a nest on our front door wreath! She laid and hatched her eggs there and everything. It was a really neat thing to watch...we used the back door for a couple of weeks so as not to disturb them too much!

Sara said...

I love watching birds...such interesting animals! Cute new picture of the kids at the top of your blog..all color coordinated as usual!!

Ginger said...

I love watching birds, too! We have a little wren that has built a nest on our back porch. Our backyard is seriously a bird sanctuary! I can't wait to start filling up my hummingbird feeder. They would empty it in a couple days last summer.