Tragedy Struck Last Year but We Have New Hope!

I love this time of year! The leaves grow back on the trees and we start to hear and see lots of birds of all kinds. The other day the girls saw a Blue Jay and we have seen a few Red Robins around our backyard. We have had the pleasure to witness a couple checking out our bird house in the Plum Tree out back but no one has moved in yet.

Last year, we had 2 tragedies ... we had a bird that moved in our bird house and ants found her eggs and climbed up the tree and took over the nest. It was a sad sight as one baby bird just hatched and was barely peeking out of its egg and the ants were on it. We cried and had a burial!

Our second mama bird we watched every day through our window and the girls and I became very attached to her. She worked hard daily at making her nest in our fake little decoration tree next to our front door. The girls were amazed at her accomplishment!

Then when she was done she laid her eggs and sat on them day in and day out. And one night tragedy struck. Tom heard a rustle out front sometime in the night and the next morning I went to peek on her and the tree was knocked over with broken eggs on the ground. It was a sad sight as the mama and daddy robins were on our fountain safe but confused and mournful. They tweeted aggressively for hours and stayed close by with disappointment then left and never came back.

Pictured above is our new mama sitting on her nest as she always does every morning. I took the picture yesterday through the window.

We have great news!!! The spring weather has brought to us another mama bird. Last week a new mama and daddy have made our little decoration tree a place for their nest. Again, we watched diligently as the mama made her next. I took her 2 days. We even put some cotton outside under the tree that she was thankful for as it is embedded in and all around her nest. For the past 5 days every morning she has tweeted as loud as possible while sitting in her next as the daddy stays close by. Then she would leave and we would peek through the window and see a darling light blue egg.

Here is the picture of the 4 yesterday but since then we have another one with a total of 5 little blue eggs. We will watch and keep you posted and soon we are hoping for some new family members.