A Sad Story from my Backyard

A bird has been sitting in her nest on top of the light outside our garage door. She just sits there all the time - and leaves to get food - but she is always sitting there. Mark and I assumed that she had a baby in there - why else would she spend so much time at home? So we've been really quiet going in and out of the garage all the time - being so careful not to scare the poor thing. 

Well everything for this poor bird came crashing down today. Mark said that the bird was squawking all over the place. He looked over and saw the bird baby in several pieces on the concrete - with ants eating it. He said the pieces looked dry so it happened a while ago. Isn't that the saddest thing? We've been trying to figure out how that might have happened. I wonder if it fell out of the nest when she went out looking for food or if a squirrel or some other bird pulled it out of the nest - making it fall. 

Mark and I are so sad. We've been looking at this bird and we felt like it was our friend. Mark says that when she was squawking he felt like she was trying to tell him something. I went out and saw the dried blood on the sidewalk while Mark buried the baby in the garden. I looked at the nest and it's empty. I feel so sad for this mother who lost her baby. 

Both boys were sick over the weekend. Ricky missed his friend's birthday party but he was able to go on the field trip today. Mark isn't working this week - his assignment was cut early - so the four of us all went. Teddy was so good on the trip. It was to a nature place and my stroller is for walking around the mall. So he was able to nap with all the bouncing around. I was home all weekend and was beginning to get stir crazy so it was good to get out of the house!!