I cant sleep at all last night, so I stay up and wait for the sunset. When the sun starts to come up I go outside and smoke a bowl. I'm sitting out on my deck toking and I hear and see a loud assed bird scream and dive towards me. I fucking duck down and have a massive oh Shit! moment. I look up and see that its a Bluejay, and as my high eyes wander up the tree I see.. a nest! I'm curious as hell, so I want to see if there are eggs or baby birds in it. I zip tie my camera to a 15 plus ft pole, set the timer.. ..and... I'll soon have some birds to smoke with now.. I never noticed how amazing a bird nest is.. lol Sorry for the random high story.
Dude this is an amazing post! Kudos for the pics! I look forward to seeing the burds! I'm suddenly hungry for chicken nuggets!
You get it. And I don't want to be attacked by the momma bird while climbing. I cant wait till these little fuckers hatch, I'll be sure to take pics of them growing up.
I think I heard some other tweets this evening up in the tree. Pics tomorrow to see if the eggs hatched.
Another insomniac night, so took some pics this morning when the sun came up. No luck, still got eggs, not babies. Should hatch soon, incubation last 17 to 18 days. Then the baby birds leave the nest around 17 to 21 days after hatching. I really want to find out what the skeletal, weaved object is that was built into the nest.
I'm pretty sure keeping a native songbird as a pet is illegal, so I'm not going to take them out of the nest. MAYBE one of the chicks will fall out early, or gets blown out and injured. Thats the only way I'd bother keeping a bird.