One baby bird at a time.
















The cardinal family created their nest near our window in the front of our house. The nest is viewable from our bathroom window and it has sent me off to the bath room more frequently just to take a peak out the window.....I discovered the nest two weeks ago on Monday... so the nest may have been there for a while before that. Now, I was out of town last 5 days and I can not tell when theses babies hatched.... but from the look of the feather, I suspect that they are three days old? 

I watched all three get their food from their Daddy today. What an excellent experience for any of us to get to see something like this?  These things always happen while my son is in school so I had to ,, just had to take shots....

I am grateful for my camera and the lens that allow me to capture something that often my naked eyes to not see......I was quite surprised to see the detail on photos. 
The fuzzy feather on their head and the body is so funny to look at!   I hope to enjoy the bird family for a while until the birds fly off,, although I don't know when. I know they grow up so fast,,, I mean the expression so frequently uttered by us parents,,, takes much speedy meaning in the lives of birds
And, I also  Wonder if they return to the same nest yearly? OR do they make a new one?  Is this something I would get to enjoy every year? 

At any rate, I can tell that there is much love in this family. The father demonstrated such strong sense of responsibility ,,,,feeding, teaching,,,encouraging,,, I know he attends to the baby very well and he protects and guard the territory....
The bird family made me think of human families...,,They are a lot like us in that they are very protective of their babies. They are also a lot like us,,, mother incubates the egg and confines herself to the nest for a few weeks until the babies hatch,,, then the feeding starts when they are born. The dedication and commitment to feed their young reminded me of the breast feeding efforts made by many moms....
I hope that human nature takes care of the babies as excellently and significantly as the birds do their young,,,
The father returns to feed the young,,,

one baby bird at a time....


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