Bird Eggs... and babies

A few weeks ago, one of the boys behind us found an egg that had hatched, so we put it in our laundry room to "keep it safe" where it quickly got smashed somehow :(

But, the boys immediately knew it was a robin's egg, so we took pictures of it smashed.



Well, last week we came out the back door one morning to find an egg smashed, no baby but some yolk...hmmm. We don't know why, but the next day, there was another one. They guessed, correctly, that it was a house sparrow egg, because there is a nest in our roof right above the found eggs. We are not sure what happened. We need to call grandaddy, our bird "expert". But, again, we took pictures, and my finger is next to it so that you can see the size.


Also, we think a cardinal nested next to one of our windows, but we can't safely see into the bush, so we will see what ventures out.

We have seen quite a few babies lately, some of them so big that we did not know they were babies. This morning, we saw 2 European starlings in the back yard with 3 similar light brown birds. Well, we pulled out the binoculars, and the lighter ones were following around the darker ones. Lo and behold, they would peck some, but open their mouth a good bit, and then one of the darker ones would feed them... some pretty big babies!! I would have never guessed, but observation shows us a lot!