House Finch Nests
House Finch nests at the Kentucky Castle
Killdeer Nest on our Neighbor’s Driveway
Unknown ground nest
10 eggs in a ground nest. Habitat – under a small evergreen bush next to the front door of our house. I have not seen the parents. They are the size of chicken eggs.
eastern bluebird eggs & nestlings
What kind of chicks are these?
My dad took me to the Kentucky castle’s farm yesterday, and we found four active nests.
Killdeer mama a single parent
I have been watching this Killdeer bird and her nest for a little over a week now. According to all the articles I have read this species is monogamous and both parent birds take part in the nest protection and incubation process. Sadly this Killdeer seems to be a single parent and often has to leave the nest alone in search of food. Last night she was gone the whole night. I am hoping her eggs did no freeze as we are still having some nights that drop to freezing temps ; until June arrives. I will keep on the lookout for the mother and keep monitoring the nest. I have yest to find a specific answer on how long the Killdeer eggs can be viable without incubation and freezing temps.
Dark-eyed Junco Nest – 3rd floor balcony birdhouse
The old bird house on our tiny balcony on the 3rd floor was chosen by a pair of Dark-eyed Juncos for nesting. These resourceful little birds have made some amazing shifts in behavior to adapt to urban development. Even watching them build the nest, we weren’t convinced they’d use it. But the other day, lo and behold… two little eggs!
The Cardinals Are Hatching!
A neighborhood cardinal nest with 3 eggs has begun to hatch! We’re actually not 100% sure if they are all cardinals or if a cowbird snuck in there, but we are very excited to see the first healthy young!
Some Robin Nesting in CT
Our house has become popular this year with Robins. We have two nests on opposite side of the house and active nesting is taking pace
House Finch Eggs!!!
On my porch, there is this little white hanging bench swing that is supposed to be a bird feeder, but I never filled it up. And now, there is a beautiful pair of House Finches nesting in it!
The eggs are SO cute!
Sparrow Nest with possibly cowbird eggs
Do you know which eggs are cowbird eggs and song sparrow egg?
Bluebird 4 eggs
Bluebird pair raised 4 chicks in April-March 2019.
Now June 19 bluebird female laid 4 eggs in same nestbox.
wren nest
Mourning dove lays an egg
A pair of mourning doves nests on a small ledge on our house, and we watch them with a webcam. This video shows the female dove laying the second egg of her first clutch of the season on March 23, 2019.
Eastern Bluebird’s nest
Eastern Bluebird Eggs
I was happy to see 5 eggs this evening in the nest box. Another egg or two would certainly be welcome! 🙂
Bluebird’s First Nest
Eastern Bluebird Eggs
This evening when I monitored the nest box, I was pleasantly surprised to see two eggs! I put this nest box up last summer, hoping it would be used this year. It was fun to watch the female collect dried grass from my yard and carry it to the box to construct the nest. I look forward to watching my backyard Bluebird family grow this Spring and Summer!
3 unhatched eggs
Mockingbird Nest
Found one more egg in the nest on 06/15/18
Mockingbird Nest
Had watched a Mockingbird building a nest in this small bush at the front corner of our house – I found eggs in the nest on 06/10/18.
Bluebird’s Second Brood!
Northern Cardinal Eggs
Robin’s Nest
Mourning Dove Eggs
Carolina Wren Eggs! 5/20/18
Carolina Wren nest in our carport!
Eastern “Azure” Bluebird eggs
White Eastern Bluebird Eggs
Brown thrasher
Bluebirds nest of four
Bluebird Eggs
Carolina Wren Babies
As we have been watching these four Carolina Wren eggs in the NestWatch spirit, these four little fellas hatched sometime between our last checkup!
Robin eggs Robin nest #$
newly discovered nest 7/14/17
Swainson’s thrush
Mourning Dove Eggs and Nest
Mourning doves are nesting outside our kitchen door!
We have 3 eggs!
Our first Cardinal nest!! She did a good job.
Cowbird egg has hatched at the eastern phoebe nest!
His name is bonbon. I named him!
Mrs. Phoebe At Her Nest.
Maya is doing a good job incubating all those eggs! I don’t know how she fits on top of them all!
Another Phoebe Egg Has Been Laid In the Eastern Phoebe Nest, Along With A Cowbird Egg.
Why do those cowbirds find every nest in north america?!
The Eastern Phoebes Are Back In The Same Nest With 4 New Eggs!
Maya & Dino Are Back!
New Robin Nest
This robin and her husband/wife where both running up and down the tree all day building their nest! I went to see what all the commotion was about and found this nest!
Eastern Phoebe Nest Under Deck
I discovered this Eastern Phoebe nest under our deck in an area where it won’t get rained on. The phoebes have been active on the nest since they started to lay the eggs, but only in recent days once they had laid a full clutch have they been even more protective of the nest.
Starling nest
If ya can’t beat em, work with them. Which is why we give our starling pair a larger nest box in our shop they can nest in, so we don’t have issues whith taking over swallow nests on our property. Luckily our pair isn’t very confrontational unless it’s with predators (wich is quite usefull!)
Mother cardinal peeking out of the nest.
Great Crested Flycatcher Nest
Nest observation
Chipping Sparrow In Her Nest
This chipping sparrow is incubating her eggs.
robin nest
Robin nest, one day after the fourth egg was laid.
Chickadee on next
As I approached the box, the male flew out, but mama stayed put. I think she was actually sleeping when I snapped the shot. I later noticed a spider on the side of the box, who I thought was an unwelcomed visitor. A friend shared that it will manage the insects in the box, so is actually a beneficial guest. There are 6 eggs in the nest, which I first spotted about 2 weeks ago.
Anna’s Hummingbirds nest with two eggs
Nest 4.5′ off ground. Female off the nest to eat.
Northern Cardinal Eggs
3 eggs, 13 and 14 days after they were laid.
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Blue’s
One a day for the last five. We’ll see if the nest gets any more crowded.
Carolina Wren Nest
Georgia Bluebirds 2017.1
Early bluebirds in the birdhouse out front. Started building their nest in Feb and these fledged by April1
Robin Nest 4 11 2017
Our first confirmed clutch of 2017…This nest site is directly adjacent to our deck, and has been used for several years as a nest site…last year, three batches of baby Robins came from this site.
MCHM Robins
This was fun experience, since the nest is six feet and below my window, I was able to observe the nest with some regularity. I took over 2,000 photos over the whole month, with my telephoto lense. This way i did not disturb the family by walking close to the site.
Three little robin eggs!
Eastern Phoebe nest
We found that the Eastern Phoebes came back to reuse last year’s nest even though the shed/garage it is situated on was moved some several hundred feet across our property! 6 eggs were laid, can clearly see only 4 hatchlings so far.
Our first bluebird nest
An Eastern Bluebird pair arrived on March 2, 2016. The selected our Gilbertson Nest Box and laid 5 eggs starting on April 2. The babies fledged on May 23. What a thrilling experience!
House wren eggs
An egg a day for the past seven days in our bird house!
Eastern Phoebe nest with eggs
2 weeks ago this nest appeared complete and had cowbird eggs in it. Last week the Phoebe built a new nest “liner” on top of the old one, burying the cowbird eggs. Today only phoebe eggs. Clever bird
House wren eggs
House wren eggs laid 5/11.
Baby Bluebirds
First nesting attempt a success! Baby Bluebirds at 5 days and 33 days from first nesting of the 2016 season. 2nd nesting attempt has started with the female laying her first egg in the same nest box on 5-4-16.
Pretty Blue Robin Eggs
Photo taken 4/30/16
3 Cardinal eggs
3 Northern Cardinal eggs.
Female Blue Jay Sits Nest
Female Female Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) regards your photographer with a wary eye as she incubates four eggs in a backyard nest.
CC eggs
Bluebirds Hatch
My first 5 baby bluebirds of the 2016 season!
Five Eggs
We put up our bluebird box for the first time this year and the momma has laid five eggs.
Mallard Incubating Eggs
Taken on Canon PowerShot SX530 HS
She let me come right up to her making for a great photo opp. In this picture, she was incubating ten eggs.
Female Mallard on Nest
This photo was taken by our Audubon BirdCam that we set up on a Mallard nest in our yard. She had just been scared off the nest by a Gray Squirrel, and in this picture, she was warily sneaking back to her eggs.
Carolina Wren eggs
5th egg laid 6-7 days ago. Same pair successfully hatched 3 broods last season (10 young.) Should see first hatchlings later this week.
Orange Finch Eggs
Bluebird nest and eggs
5 bluebird eggs, first egg laid 5/20/15 – last on 5/25/15.
Mockingbird in a rosebush.
Mockingbird nest in the rosebush. about 2 1/2 feet off the ground.
Baby Catbirds
The Gray Catbird eggs started hatching! 😀
Hanging fern nest
Four eggs in a mockingbird nest built on the crown of a hanging fern.
1st Gray Catbird Nest
Catbird nest has 4 eggs now! 😀
American Robin River Trail Nest
American Robin nest in the crook of a tree along a bike trail next to a river. Full clutch of 3 eggs.
Carolina Chickadee Eggs
Clutch of 6 Carolina Chickadee eggs laid in my nest box. First egg date approx. 5/2/15.
Carolina Chickadee’s mossy nest
Six Carolina Chickadee eggs located within a bluebird sized box. Placement in residential landscaped garden.
The Robins
Robin’s nest discovered in my backyard.
Wren hatchlings – 2 down, 3 to go.
Wren nest – 2 hatchlings, 3 eggs
American Robin Nest
American Robin nest in our carport.
1st Robin Nest
Carolina Chicadee Eggs
this is my 6 eggs in my BB house
Barn Swallow 2015
5 new eggs on our front porch.
Chestnut-backed Chickadee eggs in nest box
Black-Chinned Hummingbirds
During the summer of 2014 my children and I observed a Black-chinned hummingbird making a nest. We watched while she made the nest, sat on the eggs, hatched, fed them and then witnessed them flying away.
Six Bluebird Eggs
Usually we see 5 eggs, but on May 24, 2014 we found 6. The same nesting pair is now waiting on their 3rd clutch (5 eggs this time) to hatch which makes 16 eggs this year.
Mourning dove nest
We’re afraid that this mourning dove nest has been abandoned, since we haven’t seen the parents for a week or so. We haven’t been watering this hanging spider plant just in case we’re wrong, though..The first time this nest was used, the eggs weren’t abandoned.
Tree Swallow Eggs
Tree Swallow nest with eggs in plastic gourd.
Carolina Chickadee Eggs (8)
Nest in a nest box.
American Robin Hatchlings and Eggs
Noticed the Robin spending a lot of time in and around our yard. My husband noticed the nest while cutting the lawn on May 31st.
A comfortable nest
4 pink Tree Swallow eggs
story of the wrens
The resident Carolina wren decided to build a nest in my porch. Out of a brood of four, three fledged.
Mimus polyglottos eggs
4 Northern Mockingbird eggs in a rose bush.
Robin’s nest, SE Iowa
Robin’s nest, SE Iowa. I think the eggs were laid about 5-6 days ago……
First look at the eggs
A quick snap of our nest box with eggs from a Carolina Chickadee