Birds

Many of you know of my love of birds. Isn't this one just so cute? I am fascinated with them and the way the mama bird constructs a nest? Nothing short of a miracle. She works hard for her babies. A few weeks ago I kept hearing chirping outside one of our windows so went out to investigate and found three baby birds stuck in the window well. They looked like they'd been there a few days. I think during a bad windstorm, they must have blown out of their nest and the mom didn't know how to help them. She was in a tree very close (at least I assumed it was her from all her hovering around and loud chirping). The birds would try to fly out of the window well, but could only make it about halfway up and fall back down. They weren't big enough to fly on their own yet. We rescued them and put them out in a tree, but then worried what would happen when they tried to fly away. We all took turns holding them - and several neighbors also - and then let them go on the ground near our raspberry bushes. We're not sure whatever happened to them. We were hoping they could eat bugs and things off the ground until they got big enough they could fly on their own. I hope they survived.