Purple Finch chicks
 

Any advice on how to post this better I would appreciate it. I haven't posted many pics that were hosted. Well here goes:

These birds set up housekeeping in a plant that was hanging on my front steps. The steps get a lot of traffic but they've settled in and the people in and out don't ruffle them too much. There were 6 eggs to begin with but not there's only four chicks. I took some more pics yesterday but they're not on the computer yet. I will post those when I can. Here's the pics of the chick/s the day after they hatched and a couple days later. They are now about 9 days old and starting to show much more fuzz.

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Great pictures raeanna74, birds build nests in the strange places.

Thanks for sharing!

Here's a few newer pics when the chicks were bigger. In the first the chicks are about 5 days old and in the last ones they are 9 days old.

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This has been a joy to watch the progress of these tiny birds.

they are so cute when the are young.....great pics...hope the mess is not to bad!

xoxoxoo

Nope very little mess.

They're eating the seeds from the neighbors feeder and bringing them back here. I noticed a LOT (as in hundreds) of sprouts of the same sort coming up in my flower bed that is below the hanging plant. I suspect it's the seeds from the neighbors that they happen to drop or something like that.

wow this is amazing. Wonderful to see so close up! Lucky you raeanna74!

Well I have a few more pics that I will post soon of the full grown chicks. A week ago Monday I peeked into the nest and there were only 3 chick there. When I peeked one of the chicked hopped up and flew to the lilac bush nearby where I then saw one more. Two in the bush and two in the nest. By the end of the day there were no more chicks in the nest and they spent the next 3 days back and forth between the neighbors trees and our lilac bush. I still see them sitting on my trellis out front flittering their wings and begging for food from Moma or Daddy finch.

Here is the BEST part. Not even 48 hours after the nest was empty I was watching one of these babies on the trellis begging for a treat from Dad I saw two other birds flying back and forth to the flower pot only a foot away. They had mouthfuls of sticks and string and even fresh clover. I peeked into the nest so recently vacated and there on top of/ inside of the old nest was a new nest being built. This nest has been lined quite thoroughly with fussy strong and bits of cotton looking material. The birds who have taken up house in my plant now are chipping sparrows I think. I haven't gotten as good a look at these. They seem more skittesh than the finches. They've laid one plain egg so far. What a treat.

I should start charging rent - this must be prime property.

these are great..........animals are awesome.


we have many birds here but,not as close as that......very nice.


keep us in touch on the new arrivals.

Oh my goodness! These are great pictures! Fly's right... animals ARE awesome. They just know exactly what to do to live life properly, don't they... we should learn from them. :)

Really cool... thanks for posting. That kind of thing just brightens up my day. :D

I can't seem to get a good clear pic of the parents. Because of where the nest is they're in shadow especially when it's a bright day outside. The last picture in the first post of the adult should show a wine color breast but it just looks all brown. Any suggestions? The camera I'm using is a digital Nikon Coolpics 2100. I've read through the manual but I'm not sure what setting I'm looking for. The parents are very skittish so any red eye flash results in a picture of the parents attempting to fly away like in the first pic. Advice??