Last summer, Nick reported a bird had built a nest outside our living room window in the pear tree that frames the window. Finn and I were in Alaska and missed the whole scene, but guess what?! The little robin has come back and built her nest and laid two eggs! The pear tree completely conceals the nest from the outside, but from inside our living room, we get a picture-perfect perspective.
The first mental hurdle we had to overcome was Finn wanting to collect the eggs and eat them like we do the chicken eggs. After explaining that our chicken eggs will never become baby birds, but these ones will, I think we got through to him. And now, every morning we take a look and see mama sitting on her eggs and talk about how she is keeping them warm, and then she is out collecting bugs to eat and back again keeping them warm so they can hatch into little baby birds!
Better than TV and a perfect way to watch and explain the natural world to Finn!
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