Bird Watching: DAILY PICS VOL. 108, 1 by thymewarp13

thymewarp13 wrote:
I'm not as excited about the house sparrow family in my winter roosting box as I was about the baby robins in a nest high up in one of our tall spruce trees, but something last week happened to that robin nest. On Thursday the mama was regularly feeding her babies (not even close to fledging) and by Friday there was no more visible activity. I don't know if something happened to the parent bird(s) or just the babies, but whatever occurred, that was the end of this year's birdwatching pleasure of that particular nest.

In winter I rarely see birds enter our multi-perched roosting box that we built (specifically for chickadees) and attached to the garden shed. Over recent springs and summers sparrows had gone wild raising many families in a birdhouse next door and chowing down at my feeders until the neighbors (who show no interest in birds) finally took down the by then dilapidated birdhouse. I imagine some of those birds are now using the bottom floor of our condo-like structure for their own families.