The other day, my 11 year old daughter came to me, very excited. She said there was a bird’s nest right outside the window. My first thought was that this was not a good thing, because of our cats. Why would a bird build a nest on our porch near a window when we have cats that sit in the window and on the porch all the time? Then I looked where she pointed and discovered that the nest was actually sitting on top of a flower pot I have hanging on the wall. For this sketch I drew the flower pot sitting on the deck, because otherwise it looked like it was floating in the air, and looked a little odd!

The nest was so high up, we couldn’t see into it, so I took a picture with a digital video camera, to see what was going on. Inside I could see one light blue speckled egg. Later, the momma bird came back.

After a little bit of investigation, we discovered our little friends are a family of House Sparrows. You can find out more about House Sparrows here.

Stay Tuned for updates as “our” egg hatches. We’re looking forward to it.