Oh, what delight! I love the little dove. Do you know what kind it is? I hope the second egg hatches. Wonderful photos to celebrate life.
You always have something to brighten my day, thank you!
alan
there really is a lot to learn and i'm so grateful for that. when i'm overwhelmed with the tribulations in my little world or, worse, that of the conflicts in the world, it's a gift to learn something new. it's what keeps me passionate about being alive
i'm a little scared because i just heard that we've gone onto the serious alert level. i'm supposed to fly back home with my kids on friday. i truly wish i didn't have to raise my kids in such scary times.
thanks for sharing your discoveries through your photos and comments. it means an awful lot to me and others who visit here.
What a great post, and fantastic shots of the babies.
I always look forward to the winter visits of our juncos, but they're always gone by mid-spring. They don't like our heat!
This is why I call your blog, my safe place.
Aww, cyooot! If they're anything like chickens - the incubation clock does not actually start until the mother begins sitting on the eggs. There can be several eggs - they lay one a day (or less) - but they all hatch at more or less the same time. That's true for chickens and it may be true for wild birds as well.
Maybe they can grow up to have bird sized cell phones, like the UC Irvine Pigeons do.
Great pictures. It's neat to see life going on and nothing illustrates it so well as the young of each species.
AWWWWW, thanks for making my day, yet again. You are delightful, the two of you! (And your fauna and flora).
Pam-- I'm pretty sure it's a Mourning Dove. The second egg did not hatch. The photograph was taken a few days after the baby hatched.
alan-- We feel lucky to see what we see.
jeanne marie-- My mom is flying home from virginia today. I'm hoping, if she saw the news, it didn't scare her. These are absurd times. I hope your flight will be perfectly event-less.
wayne-- The juncos are very cute. You should have heard the mom click clicking at me when I was near her babies. I was only there for a minute, I didn't want upset her. We have juncos here all year long.
peacechick mary-- This is why we moved out here. We'd be even further out, if we could have gotten high speed internet in the boonies! We live and breathe politics and balance the insanity by watching birds. Really glad it translates for you.
rurality-- My brother did say that there was a day or two when the eggs were in the nest and neither parent was sitting. So, the clock starts when the parents start to sit. Good info. I've read that for a lot of birds hatching occurs on different days according to the order of laying. Interesting about chickens.
divajood-- These birds are anti-cell phone. I can just tell. They live out in the country and don't even like the idea of landlines!
Rain-- I always expect those babies to be born in spring, so it is so wonderful to see their little faces this late in summer. Full of promise.
YT-- The world still has its beauty, in the midst of the craziness.
Oh, I am so loving the birdies and the fishies!
So much that I'm regressing into baby talk!
What extraordinary photos, especially the ones showing the newborns and then the fuzzy toddlers a week later. I think we have nests over her too. We're flooded with little birds all of a sudden, and when we go outside, they scold us furiously for just being there and moving around under the trees!
cute cute cute! it's so funny, because just yesterday my friend was telling me about finding several baby birds [some kind of jays?] under a bush outside her house, their little mouths wide open -- they had fallen or been blown from a nest. [i wish i could reproduce my friend's hand gestures, illustrating the baby birds' mouths snapping open whenever she and the kids approached...]
she and her kids put them in a box, scrambled around looking for earthworms with little success, and fed the babies water using an eyedropper -- in the morning they took the babies to the wildlife center in their area. they learned that a bit of cat food would work fine. they were also told that motion triggers the babies to open their beaks for food -- they think a parent is arriving to feed them.
Had a few minutes to catch up on reading your blog. How's your cut healing?
kathyr-- Wouldn't it have been great if we had seen stuff like this when we were kids? I would have loved it.
kim-- We've really enjoyed getting to know the baby bird cycle around here. There's so much going on for months. We are overwhelmed by goldfinches right now. It's amazing. Sometimes there are more than 50 in the yard at once!
kathya-- How nice of your friends to take such good care of the baby jays. We read a blog called Julie Zickefoose. She is a naturalist who often writes about taking care of baby birds who for a variety of reasons wind up in her care. They need to eat so often, it is quite a commitment. There really is nothing like those little beaks wide open waiting for food. Although, I do remember when I was a waitress in Capitola in 1975, looking at all the patrons in the restaurant waiting for me to come and bring them their food or refill their coffee, and thinking that they reminded me of baby birds with their mouths open! I haven't thought of that in years!
jeanne marie-- My finger is healing. I just took the bandage off and it looks good. Roger thinks I can't do too much with it yet, a good hit would open it right back up. But it looks healthy and fine. Thanks for asking.
High cute factor here today.
Aren't they beautiful and wonderful.
We have a robin nesting in a pine tree just outside the window...
Our goldfinches are just beginning to nest and the hummingbird babies are just fledged. This is a time of wonder 
I spend a lot of time watching birds nesting and the robins in our yard produce little babies a couple of times too, not just in the spring. I had the opportunity to watch a nest very closely from it's building to it's first egg deposited in the nest and on to the baby birds sitting on the edge and falling out. Then we watched the parents take care of the babies on the ground showing them how to find food. It's all very interesting and rewarding to watch them learn to fly.
I love this post. I love your blog. It makes me feel peaceful while surrounded by bad news from everywhere....
Lovely post and photos. I always like the stories you share.
I really enjoyed this post and pictures! All the baby birds are so cute.
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