Bird Pics

The three birds right before they flew the nest.

This one stayed in the nest for a couple of days after the others. The parents stopped feeding it (for the most part - they came only occasionally) and we suspect that was a motivation for the baby to leave the nest.

I ended up startling this one out of the nest when taking a picture. The mother bird (Roberta) had been pestering this one all day - we swear it looked like she was trying to push it out of the nest. After it left, the mother was busy cleaning the nest, including getting rid of the one egg that didn't hatch (someone found it on the ground later) and the poop from the two days this bird stayed in the nest beyond its siblings. Since then the mother has done some nest remodeling, including lining it with mud and then placing a fresh layer of grass/twigs over the mud. It's now a little deeper and more reinforced. I haven't seen any new eggs over the last two or three days, but the mother is sitting on the nest this morning again.

The baby has returned to the deck a few times to sit in the sun. We have also seen it in the trees in the yard. I haven't seen the other two birds in several days - their fate is unknown...