A bird in the hand....

Let me tell you a little story... 

Way back when Gabe and I lived in 'the apartment' I had this birdcage shaped votive candle holder with these little birds and leaves stuck on the top.  It looked like this:

Wedding gift from by brother.  Thanks Juan!

Well, one day I looked out onto our porch and thought it looked like maybe there was one 'extra' bird on the case.  Look closely and you can see what I'm talking about.



Blends right in, right?

Turns out a hummingbird decided to make her nest onto the cage and hide out amongst all the other fake birds.  Check it- 


Crafty!



Initially I was all- OMG! This is so cool! A hummingbird! WOW! (Seriously, I was VERY excited).  But the excitement wore off rather quickly once I realized that this little bird and her two babies would be living in my porch for the next two weeks.  Two weeks were I would be unable to water my plant, two weeks were they would be pooping ALL OVER MY PORCH! Eeeks!

I mean sure I got some pretty cool pictures, got to see the eggs hatch, and the feedings....

But the clean up afterwards was no bueno. 

I assumed she wouldn't re-use her nest, but of course I was wrong.  The next year Doodie (Oh yah, I named her Doodie) came back and had two more babies.  She probably would have kept coming back if hadn't moved to our new home.

Which brings me to these little guys.  Everyone, I'd like to introduce you to The Doveys.



Lovey and Philip Dovey

 This pair just showed up the other day and I thought, 'Oh how cool these doves are just poking around my patio.'  I even watched them through the sliding glass door for like 10 minutes while they 'made out'.  I assumed they were just here temporarily.  I was wrong.  They have been here for 3 days now and asside from Philip flying around, Lovey just sits and occasionally walks on the ground.  Thankfuly they don't flip out when I go outside to water my plants, but still... Am I destined to always have birds have babies in my patio?  I mean I don't even go out of my way to feed or water them.  C'est la vie, right?