{"id":6701,"date":"2017-05-10T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2020-08-13T19:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T23:34:09","slug":"babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back to the Nature stuff…<\/p>\n

For the last few days as I’ve walked past the flowerbed next to our driveway something has hopped out of a large clump of salvia and hopped along the mulch to hide beneath a nearby bush.\u00a0 The way it moved I really thought, initially, that it was a large mouse or maybe a small bunny.\u00a0 But then I caught a glimpse of it yesterday and saw that it was a bird – most likely a sparrow.\u00a0 Today it dawned on me that it was doing this each day for a week – there must be a nest – so I took a quick peek and found not only a nest, but 2 hatchlings and 6 more unhatched eggs! Wow! [edited to add – now that I’m looking closer at some of the pictures it may be 4 unhatched eggs and the eggs beneath the hatchlings may be the broken shells… it’s hard to see so will have to try to get another look in a couple days]<\/p>\n

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I only snapped a couple quick pics because these hungry little ones kept opening their beaks as I made noise so I knew I needed to let mama come back in a hurry, which she quickly did once I stepped away.<\/p>\n

I believe these may be song sparrow eggs – based on a quick glimpse of the mama and a quick google about egg color and nest location<\/a>.\u00a0 However, I didn’t get a good look at mama so I am not 100% sure on the identification – she was quick to get to a nearby bush and hide.<\/p>\n

Now, I just need to keep a good eye on the dog for the next couple weeks so she doesn’t make the same discovery I did!<\/p>\n

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Back to the Nature stuff… For the last few days as I’ve walked past the flowerbed next to our driveway something has hopped out of a large clump of salvia and hopped along the mulch to hide beneath a nearby bush.\u00a0 The way it moved I really thought, initially, that it was a large mouse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1055,922,11],"tags":[482,22,15,1139,1215,1076,1140],"class_list":["post-6701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-birds","category-in-the-garden","category-nature","tag-animal","tag-bird","tag-garden","tag-hatchling","tag-nature","tag-nest","tag-songbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6701"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6995,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions\/6995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}