Nests
What's that in the canopy of the tractor??
It's a bird nest, and it's been there since Spring 2007. This is its second year and I swear I think it's grown, so I think it got used again this Spring. I don't know how a bird can get into that nest, or how it likes having its home moved around. Spring is a busy time for a tractor.
This is a bit of my garden, one of the beds I haven't yet yanked the weeds out of and planted. I *should* have cleaned up last fall but I didn't and this is the result. Yuck! But look what's tucked into the cattle panel by the T-post (I use cattle panels as a trellis for my peas, cukes, and tomatoes).
It's a newly hatched baby house sparrow, with three eggs still to hatch. Needless to say, this garden bed will stay weedy a while longer - or at least this section will!
A cropped version of the above pic, that I didn't scale down. You can click on it to see a larger version. The little bird's leg is clearly showing and its head is in the shade. Before I ran to get the camera it was sitting up with its tiny mouth wide open, waiting for mama to bring it some food.Labels: country living, nature
posted by Leslie @ 5:26 PM
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amazing!!!
What a great blog! I found it while searching to see if anyone had used T-posts and field fence to trellis tomatoes. I'll have to read more of your blog to see if you talked about how that worked out for you.
-Peg in Michigan
Adorable little baby bird nest with baby, too!
Funny about the mobile tractor nest.
And I like your idea of using cattle panles for gardening.
I have three sparrow eggs in our nest. Unfortunately we had to move the nest, because it was in our gutter...the water was backing up and pouring into our kitchen wall..it destroyed our kitchen. we knew the birds were in there and didnt want to take them out....we just didnt know how much damage there was till it was too late...we put them safely in a box in a hanging plant under our archway, and covered that with plastic to keep the rain out...hopefully the mom will be there...if not we will take them to the bird sanctuary.
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