Hatched!
We have definitely seen a lot of birds nests and eggs this year.
The one thing I haven’t seen, up until yesterday, was evidence that the eggs actually hatched into baby birds. There is a very small birds nest on the wire mesh around the stairs on our place. Mama bird has been sitting on 4 eggs. Yesterday Etienne told me that one of them hatched. We had a look and sure enough, there was a teeny tiny baby bird. It couldn’t have been more than a day or so old. This was probably one of the coolest things I’ve seen.
Mama Bird
Baby bird
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August 15th, 2010 at 11:14
It looks like the eggs are laying on a very soft duvet of some kind. Do you know what type of bird they are? Robins lay blue eggs but I’m sure you don’t have robins up there. What size is the mother bird?
August 15th, 2010 at 18:12
What kind of bird?
August 15th, 2010 at 18:37
No Idea actually….lol
August 15th, 2010 at 21:27
Ask Clare from: The House and Other Arctic Musings…he’d know!
August 16th, 2010 at 09:40
A baby only a mother could love.
August 16th, 2010 at 10:57
Ahhh, I love baby birds. Very cool, thanks for sharing.
August 16th, 2010 at 20:38
Wow! That’s very cool. Congrats mama!
August 16th, 2010 at 22:47
OMG that is the creepiest thing I have seen. Those eyes give me the heebie jeebies. Well so does the picture where it looks like its neck is broken and its fur has been plucked out in patches. Post more pictures when the birds are cute.
Other than that, it is pretty freakin’ cool.