Making a house a home........

The new bird house.......

For about three years now this little bluebird has made her spring nest at our house. First she started in a birdhouse that was never intended to actually be a bird house! That one was moved from the front porch to atop the post that is currently in the ground just off of our front porch. The kitty cat got ahold of the old house one time and broke all of the baby bird eggs! Wasn't a pretty sight.....anyway, I digress. This is the new and improved, made for the weather birdhouse that I purchased for our little bluebird family this year at the Spring Garden Show......I was worried that she may not make a new nest in it ~ since it was different I was concerned that maybe she would be more concerned with where her other house and nest went....so we put it up on the post and we waited. They arrived just as they have for the last three years, around the middle of March. They started flying around our porch in search of their house, they investigated the new house but didn't seem particularly interested in it......Moma bird tried to make a nest in a cute little rabbit pitcher I had out for decoration on a table on the front porch. I quickly took it out of the picture as the kitty cat would have been very glad to see them in there, boy could she have gotten to that nest easily! So, after I moved that pitcher, I was again worried that Moma bird was upset. She flew away for a day or so and I didn't see her. Then, one morning, she re-appeared, Daddy in tow. She feverishly began to haul anything that she could pick up into the new house!

I thought you might enjoy a few pics so here they are......making their little house a home! We can't wait for the baby birds to hatch out once she finishes with the preparation and actually lays the eggs. That should be soon....it is so nice early in the mornings to sit and watch her as the dawn breaks on another of God's wonderful days. We watch her fly out and fly back with breakfast and we can hear the baby birds inside each time she comes back to feed them. Such an amazing thing to watch.

Till next time........