this years babies

Re: this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (jarca) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:56:09 GMT

as i'm sitting here, two of the babies just flew in and landed on the wire on my porch!
they are as big as the parents now and i can only tell the difference because the babies don't have the spiked tail streamers yet and their chests are tan instead of orange.
as big as they are the parents are coming in and feeding them still.
i can't tell for sure, but i think the one missing is "escapee" ... watching to see if a 3rd baby will come.
tried to get a...

Re: this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (jarca) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:14:36 GMT

baby #2 had now taken over "escape's" place on the bucket and i didn't go out as i didn't want to make the mistake i had made with "escape" (plus now if i went out i was attacked by very angry parents).
so i watched thru the window saturday morning at #2 perching precariously on the edge of the bucket, flapping his little wings in preparation for flight.
jerr was here.
jerr went out.
baby #2 flew away towards the neighbors house across the...

Re: this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (Tamra) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:05:02 GMT

Sounds like he was raring to go sometime soon anyway! We will pray!!! (& hope)

Re: this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (jarca) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:27:47 GMT

i'm never gonna live that down am i?
friday "escape'' was back up on the edge of the bucket;

the other two kept bumping him from below and i was afraid he was going to fall out....

Re: this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (templework) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:52:49 GMT

good thing baby birds don't have to hang up their coats... ;)

Re: this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (Tamra) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:45:41 GMT

ya think he learned his lessen about jumping out of the nest before he can fly???

Ummm.................do we ever???

Re: this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (jarca) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:25:26 GMT

(YOU weren't EVER like that were you??? Me neither!)

me??? defiant???? never!!!!
'escape' must have been pretty worn out from he excursion the day and night before as he staying inside the nest all day yesterday and was sleeping good in the nest last night when i checked.
this morning i'm...

Re: this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (Tamra) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:45:59 GMT

Silly children that have to defy their parents! (YOU weren't EVER like that were you??? Me neither!) This sounds BETTER than TV!!!

Peter & Izzie aren't the only ones that like to watch the birds at our house buzzing around the backyard! Sara is cutting aluminum foil strips now so we can hang them in the apple tree. No - NOT for Christmas!

Re: this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (templework) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:26:45 GMT

WOW!!! babybirdsitting is EXHAUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (jarca) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:22:37 GMT

i spoke too soon.
i looked out my window and saw this;

i figured one of the other babies had fallen out of the nest and obviously wasn't ready to fly yet.
so i went out and got the bucket down to return him to his nest.
the two other babies were still in the nest!!!!
it was "escape!"
lord knows where he was hiding as i checked everywhere...

Re: this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (jarca) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:23:37 GMT

last night "escape" didn't return to the nest.
however at dusk mama, papa and another bird returned and were flying around. the other bird looked a bit large to be "escape," but it was flying weird; like it wasn't good at flying, fluttering low, always coming in with the papa bird and landing now and then down on the porch which the parents never do. so i'm hoping that is him and that he went off for the night with the parents to roost wherever they do at...

Re: this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (jarca) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:00:46 GMT

the parents came back after i was done and fluttered at the nest, but wouldn't land on it.
instead they landed on the perching wire they use on my porch (an extension cord i have for the dog waters in the winter). the mama sat on that wire and just scanned her head back and forth watching the yard for about an hour.
i guess finally she decided it was okay and returned to the nest and the feedings went on as usual.
i've always been amazed at how fast these birds lay...

Re: this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (jarca) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:40:30 GMT

i just can't leave anything alone .
after writing the post this morning i got to thinkin (uh-oh, here we go again).
after all of the years watching these birds i have noticed that they have a system to feed (and poo).
at feeding time the babies form a circle in the nest.
the parents come and feed the baby once, and once again.
that baby then gets up on the edge of the nest,...

Re: this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (jarca) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:03:48 GMT

this morning the babies are still alive. so they must be getting fed or would have died in the heat yesterday.
amazing.
interesting the way god works in my life and i think i figured out the plan (in my weird thinkin mind).
when i found the babies alive that night when i just wanted to go to bed and rest, i couldn't figure out why god would add one more thing to my plate.
that nest could have fallen when i was gone; or at the least i could have ignored the urge to go...

this years babies

feeds@yuku.com (jarca) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:57:59 GMT

as most of you know i've got a set of barn swallows that every year come and build their nest on my porch eve and raise babies.
i just love to watch them out my window grow and love that they eat mosquitos!
this year they came again, but built the nest on the other side of the eve where i couldn't see it out my window and there was nothing there to really hold up the nest (last year they started a nest on that side and when it fell they came to the window side and built as...