Spa Day

A late summer event, no time to send out the announcements! But as usual, I took photos. The first photo is of the petunia pot that rests in a corner of my deck this summer.

It gets visited by birds and butterflies throughout the months.

The pot is close to the birdbath which gets visited by an assortment of feathered beauties during the month. I water almost daily now that summer it at it hottest and as you can see I do not sweep the deck. One morning I noticed this below in the far corner of the flower pot!

This was taken on August 18...a wren's nest buried under the petunias.

Above was taken on August 20, two days later. You can see their pin-feathers.

Taken on August 23 with eyes open.

Taken on August 24 where you can clearly see there are four as they push open the mouth of the nest. I am now watering carefully around the nest.

I have not really been able to watch the parents feeding because they dive out of the pot and away into the woods hidden by the deck.  On August 27 one of the parents was hanging out on the post in the pot. I went out to take another photo.

Here they seem to be clearly fed up with my stalking them as they cower down. Within three hours when I went out to check again, they were all gone! They had fledged and I could not see them anywhere in the woods. A few hours later I captured this.

This is one of the parents, I am guessing Mom finally getting her spa day.