Here is the giant tree that the mother kingbird (found out it wasn't a meadowlark) thought would make a good home for her four little babies. It is 3.5 feet tall at the most.
And here are the beautiful little eggs laying in the nest.... I didn't touch or breathe, or anything on them. This was yesterday. The nest is so tightly placed in between the branches, I just couldn't get my camera in any closer without risking moving something. My camera was acting up, and it kept trying to focus on the branches or the other parts of the nest. I have been taking pictures of the birds in my backyard everyday for about 10 days now. I bet I have 1200 pictures of birds, feeding, flying, sitting, -- and about 95% of them are blurry. You may not know this, but birds move fast. Really fast. They move lots faster than I am a decent photographer....
Then today, I got this picture of the mother sitting on the nest. Can you see her in there? She absolutely fills it. Covers the whole thing up. Wanna guess why?
One day later. All those eggs have hatched, well, we think they are all hatched. This was as close as I could get, and I was afraid it was too close. Everytime they heard the camera go off, they opened their tiny mouths like they thought they were going to be fed. I felt like some kind of fake mother bird. :(
I want them to grow up and fly out of that nest so they can eat insects all over my yard!
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