My Birds

Well....I guess I haven't told you about my bird family. It's a story so here we go. I always hang plants on either side of my front door and usually they do well. Doing well means they usually last the summer. Well not this year. We had so much rain in June and July that I think it drowned my plants. The first ones that I put in died pretty quickly so I went out and bought some new ones...impatiens this time, as I have never killed an impatien plant, inside or outside. So much for that theory.. One day I go out and there they are.....DEAD.

Okay. So I put my hand up into the hanging plant (which is above my head because I am just a fat little woman) and what flys out but a bird (don't ask me what kind, all I know is that she makes a clicking sound). Well, I thought, this can't be right, so I called Ralph out of the house and had him look in the plant which he could do because of his superior height. He reached up and brought it down to show me the nest with eggs that was making a home in the planter.

The babies have hatched. So since we have known that the babies are there we have been trying not to use the front door or bother the babies and Mom in any way. I have been so worried this week about the babies because of the high temperatures that we have been having. I put a bowl with some water out on the ledge of the doorstep so Mom could take water to the babies (not that I know if that could happen or not) and Ralph came home today and said that the babies are much bigger so they survived the weather. This is a video that San took on Sunday when she was out. Watch the baby open its' mouth thinking the camera is food.