Spring Bird Family Vacations
Spring Bird Family Vacations – or lets call it the bird resort here at our place. This is the baby update of these 4 birds who have nested around our place.
The Raven is here every year all year. This couple had 2 babies this year. I have been trying to get a photo of all 4 of them together, but not easy to do. The 2 babies follow mom and dad everywhere still wanting to be fed by them. I just love watching how birds take care of their families.
I had mentioned in an earlier post that the Eastern Bluebirds had 4 babies. They have all left the nest and I am really going to miss these because they eat a lot of bugs. One baby somehow landed in a bucket I had outside, I took him over by the bird house and he wondered out of the bucket and than flew off.
I hope they come back next year.
The beautiful Tree Swallows had 4 or 5 babies. It is hard to count these because they fly so fast. They have all left as well. I looked up on the internet to find out where do they go after fledging. It said they usually find a group of their own and all hang out together until they fly south for the winter.
My northern Flicker residence are still here and they had 2 babies as well. I still see them flying around as a family for now.
If I can get any new photos of the kids, I will surely share them with you.
Spring Bird Family Vacations
10 Replies to “Spring Bird Family Vacations”
The families grew up before your very eyes Sandra and you have documented it for us.
It is so fun to watch them fledge, I hate to see them go.
Yes, I wished I’d seen that Robin fledge, but when I saw him on the side of the nest that morning, I knew it was time. Marge next door had a mourning dove lay two eggs in a decorative wire basket on her deck. One of the eggs was literally taken out of the nest by the parents, so they must have known it would not survive. She would watch all the “action” at her kitchen door wall and sent me pictures every day. She watched the baby learning to fly and hated to see one day the whole family was gone.
This is great, Sandra. Thanks. It’s like bird genealogy keeping track of your residents. What a friend you are to these little ones giving them a place to stay and raise families.
Thank you RJ, wildlife can teach us so much when you really take the time to watch them and how they survive. Using all the instincts that they are created with. Amazing to me π
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Thank you very much Francine π βΊοΈ
Very interesting.
Thank you very much π
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