mockingbirds

we have some tiny little, loud little, big-mouthed little neighbors outside our window

their mama keeps a close watch on us even calling all her friends to join her in a threatening vigil from various perches around the yard -we tread carefully

we first discovered the nest when it held four pretty blue eggs
by the time I took out my camera there were three
and one freshly hatched mocking bird (can you see him?)

they were fun to photograph in the first few days because every sound and movement made them do this...

it would take a minute or two for them to realize the clicking camera was not mama
hovering with worms for hungry mouths

then they would give up and go back to sleeping, waiting
in a pile of beaks and down

now they seem to know the difference between mama bird and camera mama
and are a little harder to get a reaction from
we also lost one, sadly, there are only three in the nest now

but my have those three found their voices
mocking bird littles can squawk!

I think we only have a few more days before they will be leaving the nest
I'm sure glad I get to keep my own babies around a lot longer than the mocking bird

project 52 ~ week 29 ~ get in close