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this weekend in our yard

In typical New England fashion, the weather here has gone from cool and damp to hot, hot, hot. It appears that tomorrow we may even have record breaking 100 degree heat.

The girls embraced this sudden start to summer, spending the weekend exploring the yard, eating popsicles and running through the sprinkler. Good, simple fun.







And our baby birds? In a week they went from this:



Too this:



Since I am in no way a bird expert I was amazed to watch them grow literally over night. Wings and feathers just sprouted out of nowhere. In one week. One left the nest today and I am sure the other three will not be far behind.

Two weeks of sitting on eggs, a week or so of worm feeding and mama bird is done. Not a bad deal.

just hatched

When I discovered this on my back deck, Google told me that in about two weeks I could expect baby birds, but I was still shocked when I peered in the nest today and saw this.





I will admit that when I first saw these guys I thought they were down right creepy. But this guy sleeping on the egg? I think maybe he is a little cute.



I was not sure if the small crack in the fourth egg meant it was hatching or just broken. I got my answer a few hours later when we had four babies.

more eggs!

We are up to four eggs!

Highlights from the big weekend of birthday fun to follow...

look what we've got

The girls and I found this on our back deck today. The egg watch begins.