Bast from the Past – Baby Birds

Did I men­tion that I’m try­ing to sell my house? Or how hard it has been to keep the house neat for when the Real­tors show it? How about the fact that we spent a bunch of time and money ‘stag­ing’ the house?

Well, I bought a pair of hang­ing bas­ket plants with pretty pur­ple flow­ers on them. Great idea, or so I thought. A pair of House Finches decided to set up nest in them. I took the first nest they started out before they could get too com­fort­able — think­ing they would take the hint. But no. They moved over to the other plant.

Soooo my fam­ily decided (I was out­voted) to let them stay. If I had any idea how much extra work they were going to cause. First of all, that poor plant. I have to water it a lit­tle bit twice a day so I don’t drown the birds and it is still smaller than the other one. AND, now that it’s been a few weeks and the babies are much larger (see pho­tos above), momma doesn’t fit in the nest. So she sits on the edge and poops over the side of the plant. Onto my porch. Did I men­tion we have peo­ple com­ing over to see the house now and then? It’s hard enough to get the DH and DS to pick up their belong­ings, but how in the world do you train a wild bird to keep her butt in the plant. The plant that was sup­pose to draw peo­ple to want to look at the house. Uggghhh!!!

Okay, I’ll stop com­plain­ing now. I have to admit they are kind of cute. But I’ve been told they will even­tu­ally make a LOT of noise as they grow older. Is it too late to evict them???