Baby House Finches Are On The Way

Baby House Finches are on the way! As you can see, there isn't really that much room for a nest between the wall of the house and the porch light. I hope mamma bird is a good nest builder. I'll keep you posted.

Once the babies are born, I'm not sure that the nest will hold up. The reason I say this is - six years ago a House Finch built a nest in the exact same place. After the babies were born the nest started to fall apart, the babies fell to the deck, and the nest could not be placed back. And so, I became a mama bird. I took the babies in, fed them constantly, and after several weeks they began to fly out of the box I was keeping them in. The very first one to fly out of the box surprised me big time. I had just removed the lid to feed them when the first one flew up and out of the box and landed on the plate rail in my kitchen. I don't know who was surprised more, the bird or me. I quickly scooped him up and took him outside because I instinctively knew it was his time. After that, within several days, one by one my bird babies flew the coop. The very last bird to leave was the runt. Initially, he was the one that was kicked out of the nest (before it fell apart) three times by the bigger baby birds. I was concerned that he wouldn't survive at all (law of nature). That year I was the proud mama of five beautiful fledglings.