Just found a quail nest in the backyard!!

[short cut sally]

RM, that is so cool! Its fascinating to watch.
We had several years ago, a killdeer nest in our driveway. Their eggs match the color of rocks and blend in so well. It was so cool to watch them, they hatch, and you have big fuzzballs with long legs running around, then they are gone.
We have bluebird houses but the sparrows seem to claim them first so I put up extra houses. A bluebird family moved in, built, laid eggs and wouldn't you know, saw a sparrow come out of the house last night. We have problems with sparrows like Catriona has with her birds...

[OakLeaf]

We have a red-tailed hawks' nest a couple of hundred yards down the lane. Now that the trees are leafed in, we can't see it from the ground any more. I think the hawks prefer it that way.

House wrens are nesting in the clothesline again as they do every year, and waking us every morning with their happy hollering just outside our bedroom window. The size of the voice in those tiny birds never ceases to amaze me.

No phoebes this year. Don't know where they've set up their nest.

[Aggie_Ama]

Yesterday morning I woke up to a big ruckus. Apparently my house finches were being stalked by a little black cat. I don't think he got one. Those finches like to dive bomb at the cats when they come close. I think the babies are flying already.

[tulip]

I'm waiting for the Starlings to fledge before I take down their nest and repair the eaves of my little backhouse/future office. Some people don't like Starlings, but I couldn't bear to destroy the nest during nesting season. I can wait.

[OakLeaf]

I think I heard one of the baby hawks calling when I came back from my run this afternoon. Definitely a hawk-ish voice, but not as full-throated as I'm used to hearing, and coming from the direction of the nest.

[Running Mommy]

saw mama quail this evening returning to the nest. I hope I'm here for the hatch. The little cottonballs are soo cute when they hatch!