It is soooooooo spring around here!!! We attended our Lake Association's annual meeting on Saturday at Hunt Hill Audubon Sanctuary. After the meeting, we went for a walk with their naturalist, Nikki, and our neighbor and friend Marsha to take a look at all of the bird boxes and the goodies inside them. There were Tree Swallow, Eastern Blue Bird, and Black Capped Chickadee eggs in the boxes. How cool they all were. The moms were all there watching us check out the nests. I hadn't ever seen a Tree Swallow...the males were an incredibly beautiful blue bird. Here is what we saw...
Eastern Bluebird - Their eggs are blue and their nests are made out of fine grass and pines needles.
Black Capped Chickadee - Their eggs are very tiny and white with brown speckles and their nest was the softest looking of all of them. It appeared to have "fur" of some type in it. It looked to be almost burrowed into the softness where the others appeared to be on top of their nests. Not sure if the picture shows it well enough but it was pretty cool...did I mention the eggs were tiny?!!! 
We put the fishing boat in the water on Friday and made the maiden fishing voyage on Mud Lake the same night. It is really good to be back on the water. Yesterday and today the boys got up early to head out on their continued quest to catch "Walter." This morning I received a call as they were coming back in to tell me to get my camera ready and meet them on the dock. Brad ushered me down the lake near the channel to show me the newly hatched goose eggs. The chicks were so darn cute...look hard at the first photo...you should be able to spot mom still on the nest, little chick playing peek-a-boo underneath mom's wings, another chick off the nest in front of her (the little yellow furball!), dad keeping watch in the background, the beaver chewed tree right behind mom and another one that lost the fight to the beaver off to the right, the ferns as they are beginning to uncurl to the left of the tree...and last but not least...the blue blue blue water from the beautiful morning we were having!!!
Keeping on the nesting theme, we then took Robby up to The Robin's Nest for breakfast for the first time. Lots of great food!!! Glad they aren't "just around the corner!!!" We followed that up with a stop at Jenks where Robby was presented with a new fishing rod and reel. He loves loves loves fishing!!!
Tree Swallow - Their eggs are white and their nests are made out of grasses and feathers - the feathers were a complete give away the minute the box was opened! This is dad trying to distract us away from the box.
Eastern Bluebird - Their eggs are blue and their nests are made out of fine grass and pines needles.
Black Capped Chickadee - Their eggs are very tiny and white with brown speckles and their nest was the softest looking of all of them. It appeared to have "fur" of some type in it. It looked to be almost burrowed into the softness where the others appeared to be on top of their nests. Not sure if the picture shows it well enough but it was pretty cool...did I mention the eggs were tiny?!!! We put the fishing boat in the water on Friday and made the maiden fishing voyage on Mud Lake the same night. It is really good to be back on the water. Yesterday and today the boys got up early to head out on their continued quest to catch "Walter." This morning I received a call as they were coming back in to tell me to get my camera ready and meet them on the dock. Brad ushered me down the lake near the channel to show me the newly hatched goose eggs. The chicks were so darn cute...look hard at the first photo...you should be able to spot mom still on the nest, little chick playing peek-a-boo underneath mom's wings, another chick off the nest in front of her (the little yellow furball!), dad keeping watch in the background, the beaver chewed tree right behind mom and another one that lost the fight to the beaver off to the right, the ferns as they are beginning to uncurl to the left of the tree...and last but not least...the blue blue blue water from the beautiful morning we were having!!!
Keeping on the nesting theme, we then took Robby up to The Robin's Nest for breakfast for the first time. Lots of great food!!! Glad they aren't "just around the corner!!!" We followed that up with a stop at Jenks where Robby was presented with a new fishing rod and reel. He loves loves loves fishing!!!Once home, we saw Lucy and Desi off the nest having a snack so I took advantage and ran down to the lake to see if I could see their eggs. For the first time, I actually saw them!!! There are four from what I can tell. They are HUGE!!! I'm very anxious for Lucy to have her babies...but I'm going to miss seeing her every time we head down to the dock!!! I have to send my big lens back to Ziplens tomorrow...I'm going to miss it...and Lucy will probably have her eggs hatch before I get my new one...either that or they are going to wait until we head out to Maryland next week...I sure hope not!!! I really don't want to miss any of the eggsitement!!!
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