Tuesday, July 21, 2009

New babies

We've been watching a mama dove sitting on a tiny, tiny nest for more than a week. Haven't seen her budge an inch. This morning C came running in to tell me the mama bird is gone so there must be babies in the nest. Right she was! However, the birds are a lot bigger and have a lot more feathers than I expected so she must have been sitting on babies for a few days and not just eggs.

Here is what the camera saw, as the nest is at about eye level for me and I couldn't really see down into it:


3 comments:

  1. Charming. Is this in your back yard?
    dx

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  2. Yep, in the back yard. They have nice little feathers now and I'll bet they can fly.

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