Tropicals & Tender Perennials: I just saw, 1 by SherryLike

SherryLike wrote:
These aren't hummers, but baby wrens, the day before they left the nest. They nested in a hanging basket, right over Potter and Coco, the cats. It was tough keeping the cats away, but we managed and the babies flew, like tiny, jet bullets, outta the nest the day after this photo. One by one they marched to the rim of the pot and hit the air like they had been flying all their short lives, amazing, to me anyway. The babies had never, ever chirped (we're sure mom/pop told them that if they chirped, the cats would have them for lunch!) and of course could not fly, until they zoomed straight to trees, chirping happily as they joined mom and pop, who took wonderful care, wrens are tidy birds and apparently like people. They really had mad faces in the nest when I took digitals, straddled a ladder and a foot on the shelf on my deck and the foot on the gate. I call the babies The Furious Five, because of their precious miffed faces. We believe they still reside in our barn grotto, we think we listen to them each day...