Every so often today we heard a racket of chirping through the window and finally I located the source - check out these little guys! Good thing for them I’ve been forgetting to water lately! They could have been there for quite some time, since I haven’t been home during the day lately when they’re awake - they make an awful lot of chirpy noise for just two little guys, though! (Hey, there may be other nests I don’t even know about!) Any idea what kind they are?
Anybody else have a little hungry funny-looking bundle of joy somewhere on the property this year?
Sparrows, yeah they’re really loudly chirpy for little things.
Well, I have this in my bathroom, I am attempting to raise it. I have a GQ thread about it, Colibri thinks it may be a green heron. It must be hungry because it keeps trying to eat its wing.
That’s funny because I said to someone at work today that it was so cute it was ugly, then realized I meant that the other way around. It’s even uglier/cuter in person when it’s trying to eat and it opens it mouth really wide and grabs at anything that moves, including itself.
Sparrows, really? I don’t even know sparrows - are they feeder birds? I’ve never seen them at the feeder - now house finches, those I got. Goldfinches in season, chickadees, crested titmeeses, Carolina wrens, mourning doves, yellow bellied sapsuckers, big creepy robins, cardinals, even used to have what I think was a red-shouldered hawk. But AFIAK I’ve never so much as set eyes on a sparrow.
In a knot in my siding, which just happens to be on my bedroom wall, is a family of birds, with new hatchlings. Every morning at around 5:30, a racoon climbs up on my roof and snarls at them, which sends them into a screaming frenzy, which further excites the racoon who can’t reach them. I am not enjoying this.
In a few weeks, I am sealing up the hole in the siding permanently. A racoon freaking out on cedar shingles is not the sound you want to wake to, especially on a holiday weekend.
I saw the mother flying away today and she looked unfamiliar to me. Looked up house sparrows and that could be what she was. Maybe everybody does have sparrows, but I don’t!
(My boyfriend came in last night and I said “The internet thinks they might be sparrows.”
“Don’t be dumb. There’s no such thing as sparrows.” I never could figure out if he was pulling my leg or not.)
Well, it wasn’t chirping, but I found a beautiful Indigo Bunting dead on the deck. Apparently he flew into the window and croaked his colorful little self.
I found some curve-billed thrasher nests in the hills this spring. One had three downy babies in it in mid April. The babies had fledged about 10 days later and by now they’re long gone.
Zsofia, I can’t believe you don’t have sparrows in South Carolina! Maybe I’m so used to them, I think they’re everywhere I go, but I swear they’re down your way. They’re really the most common bird we see here. That and the yucky starlings.
If they are in a hanging basket, they are probably Carolina wrens. They love to nest in hanging baskets, pots, buckets, etc. After mating season is over, they like to roost in baskets and planters, too.
I love them - they are beautiful, they sing quite loudly (way out of proportion to their size) and they aren’t terribly shy. They can be taught to eat out of your hand.
I have a mockingbird nest in the confederate jasmine around my mailbox. Fortunately, mama mockingbird figured out what a bad place that was for it before she laid any eggs in it. I think she started building it over a weekend–from Saturday afternoon to Monday afternoon, it probably seemed perfect, then the mailman came.
