Mother Birds Mothers Day

Changde Wu    2014-05-04

May 9, 2010 was the Sunday, also the Mother's day of that year. Around the noon time, I heard unusual chirping of the birds which were nesting under my porch. When I peeked out from the window on the nest, I found that all chicks were fledging. This was an event to celebrate for the birds family since the day of fledging was coincident with the Mother's day. The chirping of the adult birds were the action of guiding the chicks to the right place and feed them on the way. After the young birds disappeared, I checked the backyard, then found a dead young bird who was unfortunately drowned in the small pond, a real risk for all young birds flying for the first time. This might be a tragedy for the Mother bird on this special day.

P1 Birds made their nest in the bag hung under the ceiling of the porch; the bag was for storing the clips.
The birds were very vigillant. When feeding chicks, they used to looking around first, then put the head inside. To avoid interupt the bird, we usually pull down the curtain of the winodw facing the nest, also avoided being around the porch unneccesarilly.

P2 The eggs, when we first checked on April 6,they were cold, we thought they might be abandoned.

P3 When we checked on April 8, we found more eggs in the bag.

P4 The new babies were out of the eggs after about two weeks. Photoed on April 27, 2010.

P5 The adult bird was prepareing for feeding the chicks

P6 Close look at the adult bird. The bird is Carolina wren.

P7 The fledged chick on the tree branches

P8 Chick was preparing a fly or jump

P9 After the chicks fledged, we cleaned up the bad.

P10 A dead body of the wren chick, unfortunately falled to the pond and drowned.

Save the dropped baby hummingbird