Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Baby Birds

We noticed about a month or so ago some swifts trying to build a nest on our front porch. Not wanting birds attacking us every time we tried to come in and out of our front door we decided to knock the half built structure down.
Not realizing that the very next day they had re-built the nest twice as strong. Feeling a little guilty we decided to let them have their nest. We figured they were getting ready to have some babies.
Within a few weeks of building the couple became proud baby bird parents of 4.
The pictures are not great..I was taking them through our window so not to disturb or scare away the adults.



The little chicks are ready to take flight now...all grown up. I am not sure how they all manage to stay in the nest without falling out. I check once a day or so. Once they have all flown away and left the nest we will take it down. It was nice having the birds out there but its time to claim my porch back.

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