Tag: baby birds

  • Birth and Death: Nature’s Way

    In my last blog post, I described my glee while watching baby birds in my yard, especially a pair of fledgling Northern cardinals. I hoped hard that these babies would live. They were the third brood this season of a cardinal couple that nests annually in my yard. The second brood did not survive.

  • Welcome, Babies!

    Three-minute read Looking out my living room window recently, I was reminded of an old-time hospital maternity ward, where well-wishers gathered behind glass to view sleepy, swaddled newborns. Outside my window there were babies galore, but they weren’t sleepy or swaddled; they were hopping about, shadowing their parents, already learning so much about the world. …

    Small brown, black, and white bird know as the Eastern towhee standing on the ground. There is bird seed on the ground near the bird.