Mama Bird

At the end of April we noticed a couple of birds building a nest on our back porch. We have curtains up along the inside of the porch roof and they have built a nest in the very corner on top of the post near the curtains. They worked really hard on the nest. I did some research and they are a couple of house finch birds. They are so cute. The mama is very petite and the daddy has a red chest and head. They built and built, until one day I saw mama start sitting on the nest 24/7. She sat like that for about a week and a half, rarely ever leaving the nest. When she did, she would be right back, but we did get a chance to sneak up and take a few pictures of the nest to see what might be in there. We were excited to see 4 little blue speckled eggs up in the nest. They just hatched sometime over the last day or two and we took another picture while the mama bird was away and there are little furry chicks in there. I can't tell how many made it (hopefully all 4 of them), but I am so excited. I just want to help mama bird out, but I know she probably wouldn't appreciate it. Hmpffff. Little does she know it might be nice... or, maybe she's done this a time or two. I hope they come back again next year!


I hope to get some more pictures of the birds at some point, but don't want to upset anyone up in the nest, so I'll see what I can do over time. From what I read the babies should be there for around 2 weeks. We've already seen the mama and daddy bird appear a few times to feed the little furballs. Some of these are hard to really tell, but it was hard to get the camera to focus when we couldn't really see what was up there.


Around the same time of all of this happening, Finley had made a little mama chick and 2 baby chicks in her class at school. With it just having been Easter Bryson and Finley found some matching empty Easter eggs and put the chicks in those and made their own nest out of a blanket. It was cute, so I had to take a few pictures ;) I love my little chickadees!