Remember this darling nest in the wind chime on our front porch?
A birds nest by our front door in the sugar bowl of our wind chime sounds so idyllic. Beautiful, bitty eggs and the opportunity for an incredible learning experience for our daughter. Behold, a rarely seen stage in the bird life cycle!
Well, the eggs have hatched and it’s not a pretty sight.
We’ve discovered that the, well, obvious downside to a birds nest is the tremendous amount of poop that accomulates outside the nest… i.e. on my windchime!
THANKS VERY MUCH BIRDS! I’m gonna send you a cleaning bill when you vacate the premises.
Plus, those cute baby birds? They’re loud. That’s not really a downside though. We all get really excited when we hear them chirping! Our daughter announces, they’re feeding!
Oh boy are they feeding and getting big fast. At four days old, they are now so large that they are starting to no longer fit inside the nest (that mama bird sure didn’t plan ahead in her nest site selection!). I love that they’re too big for the nest though because now they are popping up out of it, so we are starting to be able to see them. I love that cute feather fluff.
They are pretty darn cute.
If only their poop didn’t ruin my photo.
Oh my, that is an awful lot of poop!
Awesome ~ but cannot believe all that poop! They purposely lean out of the nest to keep nest clean, but yikes!! Do any of your birding neighbors know what species bird it is?
Mom: I’m pretty sure they’re House Finches!
How cool to have the birds hatching!
As much as I used to calmly tell giggling elementary students that poop was part of life and nothing to get so silly over, I gotta say, that’s quite a load on your wind chime. Oy.