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Sunday, February 20, 2005
3:11 PM

Everyone Cross Your Fingers!!

As some of you have noticed, the hummingbird nest is looking a bit different these days. Unfortunately it appears that Mama Bird chose a less than stable spot for all of her hard work. Because the nest is attached to the vines on our arbor, during the recent wind and rain, the nest became rather wet and unstable. We had some really strong winds yesterday. As the wind blew down our side yard, the vines moved quite a bit, and the nest moved with it. But we refused to let all of Mama Bird's hard work end without putting up a fight.

First I secured the vines as best I could to minimize how much they move when the wind blows. That seemed to help. But then, the nest continued to sort of slide off of its perch to one side. So I had to add another support to the actual nest to try to held hold it in place. Hence all the green landscape tape that you see in the live picture. It seems to have helped, but I must admit that I am still pretty worried about the babies. We have another big storm that just hit and I hope the nest and the babies make it.

Here is a pic I managed to snap today of the babies in their human-improved nest:

Everyone please keep thinking happy thoughts for the little birds. I would hate for all of Mama Bird's hard work to be in vain.

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