The girls have enjoyed two great bird events this year. The first was a pair of cardinals raising their young just outside our bedroom window in the spring. The nest was inches from the window, and the girls got to see the mother sitting on the three eggs, the father coming to feed her as she sat, both parents feeding the chicks, and then the chicks leaving the nest. This picture of the baby cardinals was taken on the day they left the nest. It was a windy day, and in the morning the chicks would venture out onto branches only to hunker down again when a gust came along. They were there when the girls left for school and long gone by the time they got home.
This next picture was taken just last week after a robin crashed straight through the window of the house next door. Our neighbor came to our door early in the morning, very upset by the bird that had invaded her living room. I had visions of an owl or a vulture or something, but it turned out to be this robin, who ended up only dazed and not mortally wounded by the mishap. After school, Nora and her friend Kate took the patient into their "animal rescue shelter" (the playhouse) and nursed it back to health.
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