Here we have an overflowing nest of baby Titmouse birds (strange name I know) that was strategically placed in the trussing of our back deck. I had been asking Damyn to get a picture of the baby birds for a week or so & I finally convinced him to do it. Needless to say about .01 seconds after this picture was taken 5 little birds took their 1st flight scaring Damyn half to death and really irritating the momma bird that was perched on a nearby branch. I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants!
Next up was a nest of Cardinals in our blueberry bush. Luckily they left the nest before the berries ripened & we were disturbing them too much. These guys were only a few days old, still bald & not opening their eyes.
And last but not least, the Blue Birds. And yes, that is my mailbox! So the door to the mailbox doesn’t shut and momma Blue Bird was busy stuffing all sorts of pine straw in the mailbox for her nest. We pulled the nest out to the front of the mailbox to catch this picture. I felt so bad for momma bird though. Every time we got to a certain point in our driveway she would fly out AND whenever we got to a certain point in the road to turn into the driveway, out she would come. We did come to a great agreement with our very understanding mail-lady. She hung our mail in a bag on our flag until the maternity ward that was our mailbox was vacant.
Needless to say, a mailbox that closes & birdhouses are on our to-do lists before next spring.
