I could hardly leave you with the pics of the baby birds in the first nest without showing you the eggs that were about to hatch in the second nest. It is up high enough that it is hard for me to get pictures without dragging a metal ladder out there. Again, I can hardly believe that birds would put a nest in a tree with as little protection as this one provides... But another mother Kingbird laid four sweet little eggs in this average-looking tiny nest. She flew up above my head, squawking and trying to distract me. She landed on the ground about 20 feet away, flipping and flopping, acting injured -- it was surprising the extent to which she tried to get me away from that nest area.
We caught these as they were hatching! I didn't want to jinx anything, so I just snapped a few pics and left. It was quite a sight. Poor little things looked so pitiful, it is surprising they can survive at all. It looked like a pretty big ordeal to get out of that egg and into this world. Probably no different than every day of their lives after that... just gotta keep fighting and moving forward!
Today was over 100 degrees, so I didn't even go out there. If the mother was on the nest, I didn't want her to move her body and the shade that it was providing for all those little ones.
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