Sweet Pink Eggs

A sure and certain sign of spring…nests and bird eggs! There are at least four in the nest now. It wasn’t easy to get this shot, and the color is not perfect because in reality  they are pale pink.

We have the sweetest little bird couple who construct their little nest on our front porch. This is the fourth nest to have been built on our hanging lanterns! They make a little round nest of mud and grass with a bowl shape in the center. On year they raised five little ones in less space than an average tea cup!

This year she decorated it with parts of flowers from a nearby St. John’s Wort shrub…

See the stringy parts? well, that’s what she used to line the top outside layer of her little mud nest…

Have you ever seen such a thing? I don’t know why she picked the yellow when two different Rose of Sharon shrubs have lovely shades of pink she could have used.

Wouldn’t this have made a perfectly pink nest? Or this blue-pink…

 

I think her nest would have been perfect in pink! Nearby is a mother dove nestled down in her nest…

She has only two young birds and her nest has no decoration at all! A few quick sticks in the crook of an oak and she was done. We love watching our spring bird  babies in the trees and our newborn fawns in the meadow.

Well, I’m off to search for today’s Pink. If you have a chance, visit Nancy at My Crafty Little Page…her post for today is sooooo funny. She may not have had a chance to link to Beverly at How Sweet the Sound but her humor is worth the visit!

Until next week, Have a Pink Week!