Hollyhock love.....

Something a little different. Next to a church downtown where I went to a quilt show last Saturday is a small house with a small yard.....but it is filled with Hollyhocks! Gorgeous! Made me want to run home and plant some, but I don't have a nice fence for them to grow next to......sigh.

Sure shows that you don't have to have a huge yard and a landscaper to have a lot of beauty around you!

Finch and Sparrow babies....

I can't believe all the baby birds this year! It seems like a bumper crop. Papa House Finch either checking baby's tonsils or giving it food :-)
"MORE"
"Here it comes"

(yuck)

Look at those wings flutter....must be better than it looks!

(sigh)

My adult Chipping Sparrow.......I had never seen their babies before, but below are a couple that are visiting the driveway with the parents.

Speckled chest

Funny hair

Just sitting

From the back. They were feeding themselves.......unlike this "big baby" below.
House Sparrow (I sure need a lot more of them....sigh)

The "chick" on the right is as big as the mother!

....how pathetic is that?

Mom falls for it.

More??

I think this one has had enough!

Out of town.....heading to Ohio

Today is our 39th wedding anniversary! We decided to get out of town for a few days and are heading over to Ohio. I have so much stuff from the last part of last week, that I may set up posts before I go and save whatever I take while gone for when we get back.I'm posting this daisy shot, because I carried daisies at my wedding :-)

Now a few of my birds....catching up.
This is my little Cardinal babe.....you can tell by the pale beak. What a gawky looking little thing!

I think it looks like it is born with an adult's beak and then the rest of it finally catches up.
Sort of silly looking little "doofus".

"Hear me cry!"
Actually there was a male on the rail above it totally ignoring it. Either not its parent, or it is on its own already.

One of my wrens on the post guarding the family in the vicinity.

I'm sure this is a young wren but it looks bigger than the little one that I posted yesterday. Eggs laid at different times??

The parents are very vigilant. They can be amazingly quiet when they don't want you to notice their family, but the rest of the time its "Teakettle, teakettle, teakettle" as loud as it can.....usually when I walk out the door.

Then there is that other wren....the House Wren. I don't think I ever had any living here before. All I ever usually see are the Carolina Wren's.

This was when he was trying to stuff sticks in the gourd.....thinking about the problem after failing to jam it in sideways. Hmmmmmm.......

Still won't fit!

He did get a real short one in finally.

I just love this little cutie!

I have several baby Downy's....or maybe Hairy's....hard to tell at this age.

They study everything and work real hard at learning to feed themselves. Really cute to watch.

"I can almost reach this".......they don't seem to get the idea of hanging on the cage.

A lovely spot of yellow in the tree. I read that Goldfinches breed later then a lot of the other birds.

More babies tomorrow.

We're hitting the road fairly early, so I will probably not visit any blogs...will catch up eventually!

Baby Wren Sunday....

Cuter than squirrels.....baby Carolina Wren!

My garage babes have fledged. I know there is one for sure.You can click on the photos to see them larger, but I couldn't crop any closer. I had to sit out in the front yard far enough away that they would come out of the Lily of the Valley where they are hiding. I see the parents still going into the garage, so I don't know if there are more in there.
If you click on this one you can see the tiny little up-tilted tail!

Feeding time!

I can't tell if this one is covered in dust from our garage, or little soft feathers.

Peeking out at the world

All fluff.

"Mom....where did you go?"

I keep seeing a parent or two going in the garage. Maybe there is more than one nest in there!

I've got baby birds everywhere....baby Cardinal, baby House Finch, baby downys. I'm behind on posting and we are going out of town Monday for a few days. I may never get caught up unless I manage to set some of these up before I leave.