Garage rafter nest
new babies
Song sparrow nest in a green stalk planter
Feeding the chicks
The chicks are finally getting big enough to be seen above the nest while being fed
Week old House Finch babies
Mama wasn’t around, so got a little video of the babies
Feeding the kids
First feeding behavior seen in camera clips
New babies
Saw feeding behavior in camera clips, so got a picture of the nest to see how many there were. I *think* I see 4…
Breakfast date
House finch husband comes to pickup wife for breakfast date
Breakfast in Bed
My house finch husband appears to be feeding mama while she’s sitting on the nest (it was actually afternoon, so more like lunch than breakfast 😉 )
New Neighbors
Recently a house finch couple built a nest on a light fixture on my deck, so I installed a camera to watch them without disturbing them. The mounting place seems to be too close for good focus, but it’s good enough to see the behavior of the birds…
Unknown eggs, too small for robin
Killdeer Nest #3
Sad Fate of Killdeer Nest #2
Visited the nest the day before yesterday and it only had 2 eggs, one of which had a crack in it. Came back yesterday and the eggs weren’t flipped. Came back later in the same day and the eggs were destroyed.
Killdeer Nest #1 Nest Check
The egg at Killdeer Nest #1 has been flipped and is due to hatch any day!
Killdeer Nest #1
This egg has been in the nest for at least 21 days and should hatch any day now!
Killdeer Nest #3
Only 2 eggs left at Killdeer Nest #2
No idea what happened. This nest had 4 eggs a week ago and now only has one. The egg on the left appears like it might be hatching, but strange that an egg would hatch in the evening.
Muscovy Duck Babies Fledged!
Drove by the Muscovy nest today and on the way home from church. The nests are empty. The mother duck was on the other side of the street with other mother ducks and their ducklings.
Muscovy Duck Nest
Killdeer Nest with Four Eggs
Home Sweet Home
A pair of Carolina Wrens started building a nest in our mailbox yesterday right outside our front door!
3-27-24.
First Nest of The Season–Killdeer Nest
I was walking near the trees at a park looking for early Northern Mockingbird nests when I saw a Killdeer not flying away and calling while making the broken wing display. I took a step closer and the Killdeer called very loudly and I saw a Killdeer nest with a single egg. I took a few quick photos and then left as to not disturb her.
Blue Jay getting string for the nest
January 21, 2024 Hatching
Shows a hatchling struggling to get out of the eggshell and its sibling appears to assist
Eurasian Collaed dove babies. One hatched the day before and the second one is trying to get out of the remaining part of the egg shell.
Second eggs still in the hatching process.
Mouths to Feed
Yearly use of a sheet metal birdhouse by House Sparrows a few feet outside the window of my workshop.
2023 Nesting Season Overview Part Two
2023 Nesting Season Overview Part One
Pileated Woodpecker Family Takes Form
This Spring I was eager for breeding season to start. I began daily walks through the park less than a mile from my house. On April 2 I spotted a Pileated Woodpecker visiting a tree cavity and moments later the female emerged and the birds traded places on the nest. I discovered the birds did this routine about the same time each day. Their nest was near the top of a snag about 10 feet off a busy trail of dog-walkers and runners and older adults taking their daily stroll. Many people, seeing me with a fancy camera (and standing just a few feet from the nest), would ask if I had seen the “big bird” they had recently seen on the trail. I would answer, yes I think they have a nest in this park. It didn’t seem to occur to anyone to look up! I watched with anticipation over the next weeks as the adults started bringing food and carrying fecal sacs out of the nest. On April 29 I caught a glimpse of the first nestling at the hole. A few days later three heads emerged! I was surprised when I heard the first one calling from the nest, sounding just like the adults. A week later the first bird had fledged, and the next day the second. I found the family foraging together within earshot of the nest, where the last nestling took two days longer to fledge. I was there at that moment, heard the bird calling, saw the adult fly over to an adjacent tree, and seconds later the little one was gone. The nest was empty. Over the last five weeks I had developed an enormous sense of attachment to this new family, and I couldn’t have been happier to witness their success.
Watching a Common Raven fledge
In mid-April, I learned from eBird about the Common Raven nest with two nestlings next to the bike path in a neighborhood park. The nest was on a pillar under a major thoroughfare. A busy bike path runs through the highway viaduct. I decided to monitor the nest for Nestwatch. One bird was more developed than the second bird, and I was concerned because I never saw the adults near the nest when only the second nestling remained. One day in early May I arrived to discover the second bird had just fledged from the nest and was in the viaduct hopping around on the rocks. Occasionally it would fly a few feet. It explored some canvass and other stuff lying around. The adults watched attentively from a steel girder under the highway. They were so attentive, I needn’t have worried. I watched for an hour until the fledgling flew out of the viaduct. I was able to find the fledgling nearby and get a beautiful portrait of the bird. This became one of my most treasured birding experiences.
Wreath nest
Wren nest.
Adult Mockingbird Removing A Fecal Sac!
Adult Mockingbird Waiting For A Fecal Sac!
Most nesting birds expel a fecal sac which is a mucous membrane that surrounds the feces that helps keep the nest clean!
Feed Me!
A Adult Blue Jay Resting Before Feeding It’s Fledglings
Nest and Egg ID needed
This is from the Margaree Valley Maple strawberry fields. I have not seen the nest yet, but they are looking for ID. The nest looks like it is on the ground.
Possible IDs:
House Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Brown-headed Cowbird (rare in this area)
Fledging Day
Nest ID
This nest photo is from July 23rd, 2019 in Gravenhurst, Ontario.
Wren eggs and ?
I’m not sure what the blue speckled eggs are. The pink/brown ones are Wren, they have set up the nest in one of my hanging plants in my porch. Anyone have any ideas?
Empty Nest
House Finch nest had 3 eggs 6-26-23 The next day it had only 1 egg. On 7-2–23 my husband saw a bird take off from the nest. He only caught a glimpse of it…slender gray sparrow size. As of today 7-4-23 the nest is empty. I haven’t seen a HF since the raid which is strange because they are always around. The bird population seems much different this year. Even the House Finches struggled raising their broods this year losing chicks along the way.
Mockingbird Trying To Keep Its Nestlings Cool On A Very Hot In South Florida!
Mockingbirds Unusual Behavior!
House Finch nest ~ egg
The House Finch built a deep perfect cup nest in the hanging Fern plant on my porch. She laid her first egg this morning. The usual number is five eggs. This will be the the third brood of season for the House Finches. 6-24-23
Eastern Phoebe – In and Out!
Little momma knows what goes in must come out! Keeping the nest nice and tidy.
Cliff Swallow nests.
Nest building
Female House Finch with nesting material in the hanging fern on my front porch…6-19-12
Robins breeding in popular spot on my house (2nd story bedroom window)
Shared nest – North Alabama
Shared nest with one speckled egg and three white eggs in front porch hanging potted flowers.
White-Winged Dove with Fledgling
This is an adult White-winged Dove with her 7-10 day old fledgling located in a cherry plum tree at a residential acreage in southwestern New Mexico.
Carolina Chickadees Fledge
A short video of the 4 out of 5 chickadees being feed and two leaving the nest box.
Eastern Phoebe Nest with Babies
5 babies total. 4 made it out of the nest alive.
Eastern Phoebe Nest and Babies
Eastern Phoebe?
I believe this is a pair of Eastern Phoebe’s that have already had one nesting cycle on my back porch. They laid 5 eggs and 4 babies made it out of the nest alive, 1 of them fell out and died from the fall. It’s been a few weeks and now they are back and have laid another 5 eggs in the same nest.
Growing up
I think I woke this little House Fnch up when I took a peek today… 5-25-23
hatchlings
Lil hatchlings
Partly Eaten Songbird Egg ID!? 🙁
Outside, I found this egg while a bluejay was in the middle of eating it. I’m sad that it was eaten by a blue jay, but that’s what blue jays love to eat. (When they can find it.) I don’t know what songbird egg this so please ID!
Full House
Looks like a healthy clutch of hatchlings. Think number five is in there somewhere!! 5-18-23
Sharing
There are two nests in this wreath. One on the top and one tucked into the wreath mid lower left with brand new hatchlings in it as of yesterday. This mama has been pretty much solo…I haven’t seen any male coming to feed her. Today a male shows up in the top nest with a new lady in tow. Seems a bit odd a new family would start in the top nest while new babies just hatched yesterday in the side nest! 5-18-23
ID please!
Hatchlings
Looks like three of the five hatched today ~ 5-17-23. Think I see two eggs left. Eggs laid May 1st-5th.
hummers new nest
this is jus after i discovered i have a hummingbird in my patio..before she laid the eggs.
Turkeys.
4 Baby Cardinals about 1 week
4 Baby Cardinals
Mourning Dove Sitting on Eggs
This is the second time in 3 years that a pair of mourning doves nested in this old hanging planter. The location is just outside the glass patio door underneath the eaves of a 3-story condo building. This picture was taken on day14 of incubation.
Looking
This bird is very red…lousy picture. It is checking out the previously used nest in the top of the wreath. I don’t think it’s a male HF because it actually sat and the nest and wiggled around like females do. I’ll try to get a better pic . Is it another type of finch?? 5-7-23
Poor, poor Gunners!
Poor, poor Gunners! Why do all my nests get eaten?
Eye see you
In response to Texas Bird Family inquiry. Picture of HF fledging the day he finally flew away ~ eyes wide open!
5-1-23
Mourning Dove Nest at Chase Bank
Mourning Dove nest at Chase Bank
Still waiting….
Last of the HF fledgings still hanging in..not quite ready yet…perhaps tomorrow. Poor little guy looks kind of forlorn all alone. I did see mama drop by at least once to feed him. 4-30-23
Last fledging
Lonely HF fledging chirpping for his mom. His sibling fledged this morning about 8 am. Saw one of the parents visit the nest earlier. Am sure this fella will be gone shortly! 4-30-23
Nest number 2
A pair of House Finches had been checking out the wreath for the past few days that already has two fledgings in a nest on the top of the wreath. The female starting her nest today on the lower part of the wreath on the side. I think this is a different pair of House finches~ not the parents of the two reluctant fledgings in the top nest. I say this because I’ve seen two pairs of House Finches in my yard at the same time. 4-27-23
Mourning Dove Babies
Mourning Doves built a nest on our front porch pillar and successfully raised two.
House Finch and Cowbird
House finches built a nest. Looks like a cowbird found it.
Northern Mockingbird Nest
We were looking for nests, I didn’t think that we should check this nest because it was an old nest from last year, it turned out that Mrs. Gunner built a new nest on top of an old nest! We have seen the pair around those trees. I wonder when the eggs will hatch.
Life of eastern phoebe
This is a nest site from the carport of my house.
Finch Eggs on my Wreath!
I am just a kid in 6th grade who is very interested in birds. But seeing these eggs, and nature on my front steps, is amazingly beautiful.
This Loggerhead Shrike fledgling just out of the nest!
Party of 5
Happily all five house finch eggs hatched and everybody looks healthy and hungry! 4-12-23
Loggerhead Shrike flying in to feed its hatchlings!
Two Hatchlings
Two day old House Finch hatchlings ~ three to go!
Mom dove with two fledglings
Mourning doves have been nesting in my atrium for about 5 years. Here’s the latest batch of fledglings with their mother. It took about nine days from hatching to flying away!
Blue Jays Collecting Nesting Materials
Pretty much everyone is collecting nesting materials, Starlings, House Sparrows, Cardinals, Blue Jays, and Mockingbirds.
Full House
The fifth house finch egg was laid this early on this chilly morning. Five is the usual clutch size, but I’ll check once more to see if there is a sixth! 3-30-23
Northern Mockingbird
Nest Watch day 1-Northern Mockingbird actively building a nest.
Killdeer Deer Nest Failure!
We visited the Killdeer nest. We found destroyed eggs. The mother was in a nearby field yelling. Poor Mrs. Deer! What do you think has eaten the babies? Please see my post showing the destroyed eggs.
First Egg
First House Finch egg of the season laid this morning 3-26-23
Ready set go
Female House Finch was on her nest early this AM am quite sure she laid her first egg. She is sitting on it now.
Papa is singing from the tree tops. 3-26-23. May make a quick check later in the day to see if I’m right. I’ll post a pic if there is an egg.
Mourning Doves at Chase Bank
I saw a dove fly up to a light and I noticed that it was a nest! The male was sitting on the nest while the female looked at him and flew away.
Sweet spot
Noticed this nesting material and what looks like the start of a nest in my spirea bush beside my driveway this morning. 3-25-23
Interesting nesting material
The House finch has been bringing lots of padding to the nest. This looks a bit unusual to me…don’t know what it is.
Loggerhead Shrike With No Tail!
This Loggerhead Shrike has no tail, but that doesn’t stop it from flying!
Nesting Loggerhead Shrike!
Getting Ready
This darling house finch has been diligently padding her nest 3-21-23.
Nest building
Female House finch working on her nest this morning in the wreath on my covered porch ~ 3-16-23
2 Killdeer nests
Today Mr. Deer was on the nest. (and he did everything wrong!) We went to the nest and he ran away! No yelling, no broken wing display, or anything. We came back and he was on the eggs, he got up and ran away then he ran towards me (isn’t he supposed to run away with a broken wing?) saying “dee dee dee deee”. I left and he went back to the eggs. Maybe Mrs. Deer should just sit on them. She doesn’t run away. We also found another nest with another Mrs. Deer on them. She did not get up so the number of eggs in unknown.
White-winged Dove nest failure
We have been watching a White-winged Dove nest since March 9th. We last saw her at 3:32 and now at 4:27 the nest was damaged and we found a bloody egg on the ground. What predator do you think would do this? Maybe a squirrel?
Poor poor Mrs. Dove!
We just went outside to see Mrs. Dove and she was gone! The nest was damaged and there was a bloody egg on the ground. Poor Mrs. Dove!