For those who were actually looking forward to my flashback last week - sorry I just totally spaced it! I had been super busy with a major project deadline (which I will share later, I promise - right now it's top secret) and Friday completely got away from me! This is the last week of school for the girls, so maybe I'll post a new flashback this week - if I get a chance!
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Do you remember last year and our feathered friends? You can check them out here - here - and here. Well, the birds came back again this year - luckily (for us) they didn't build their nest on our porch light like they did last year. Instead they built it on our privacy 'wall' on our deck - which was probably a bad idea (for them - you'll see why later). We were anxious to see them leave so we could finish our deck and painting our house (as you can tell by our pictures below, it needs major work!), but we didn't want to see them gone so soon!
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April 22nd - as they are building the nest
May 2nd - we see eggs!
May 13th - we see another nest in the tree in our front yard. Unfortunately they are a lot higher up and hard to watch. This is a bad pic because the only way I could take a picture was through the window.
May 20th - we first notice baby birds!
We had fun watching them for a couple of days. As we worked outside on Saturday we would see them being fed - and sometimes when we would walk out onto our deck when the momma bird was gone, the babies would poke their heads up. Sadly, Sunday after church, we came home to find a sad scene. We're not exactly sure what happened, but there are no more birdies and we found lots of carnage at the scene. We suspect a cat was able to climb up there and get to them - this is why we think the wall was a poor choice. We're sad that we won't get to watch these ones grow up like we did last year, but I guess now we can move on with our house work - as long as the weather will cooperate!
2 comments:
How sad for the birds, and your family! I think robins will have a second try if the first ones were early in the year, so perhaps mommy and daddy have moved to a safer location. Hopefully!
Oh no! I'm so sorry to hear what happened to your little birdie family. :( Hopefully next year, the birds will select a safer location! We get nests built in the steel beams of our carport(we can't see the nest, but we hear them). And often times see little babies who didn't make it. I suspect the mommies push them out. Ugh. I used to worry the girls would freak out if they saw it, but they are ever curious and don't get emotionally attached. Whew. Still it's a sad, sad sight.
Good luck with the house projects. You are very ambitious!
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