Baby Birds!

Chalk this one up in the category of "you never know what you might find when you go outside".  This past week my 6 year old and I were taking a look at the garden.  Next to the garden was a broken egg (bird) shell.  That got me to thinking that if there's a broken shell, maybe there's a bird nest with some baby birds somewhere in the yard.  So we set out looking through the trees and bushes for active bird nests.  It didn't take us long to find one.

We found the momma bird sitting in the nest.  A few minutes later she flew away, so we went to check it out.  Inside were 2 eggs and one baby bird!

This was a really cool experience for my daughter.  This is the first time she's seen a baby bird this young.  Given that the other two eggs had yet to hatch (they hatched sometime in the next 2 days), the baby bird in the picture likely just hatched.  

In the days since we found this nest it has become a daily ritual to ask about the birds and to check them out when the momma bird leaves the nest.

So take a walk around your yard.  You might be surprised what you can find.