The "Underground Railroad" Porch

I feel like our porch is a stop on the underground railroad.  That word is getting out that we're a "safe haven" for birds.

As you have seen, we had a finch nest last year that raised a couple of babies.  This year we had a finch nest, but their efforts were interrupted by a hungry BlueJay.  We had a dove who successfully raised two babies, and now we have ANOTHER dove nest with TWO MORE eggs.  

What???

I don't have any idea if it's the same parents, but it's possible.  It's in a different hanging basket (because they just couldn't go ahead and use the one they've already killed the flowers in), so this will be the third plant that's had a nest this year.  

I've got tons of pics of the first set of dove babies and now of the new nest.  So here ya go...

This picture is not of the parents, but of 

the babies a day before they flew away!

And here they are again, getting ready to go!

This is the empty nest after they flew away. 

Notice that ALL of the flowers are DEAD!

Here is one of our babies hanging out on the gate.

Baby hanging on the gate..

And this is one of our other hanging baskets that is about

to have all the flowers die, as there is another dove nest here.

And here are the two new eggs!  Nice and green

for now, but it the flowers will die soon enough.

We don't water the flowers with the momma on the nest.

AMW