We have a lot of birds in the yard nesting this year.  The families of Killdeers, Robins, Brown Thrashers, Orioles, Blue Jays, Morning Doves, warblers, Red winged Black Birds, Cow Birds, Wrens, Rose Breasted Grossbeaks, Gold Finches, sparrows of all kinds and an occasional wood pecker.  Of all of these, the Killdeers have been the most fun to watch and also the most challenging because the one family laid her eggs right in the middle of our driveway!  Crazy bird.  So I had to put markers around the nest of 4 little eggs, (of which all hatched) so we wouldn't run over them.  It had been a cold spring, so we felt sorry for the poor bird sitting on those eggs in the cold, rain and sometimes snow.  But she didn't get flooded! Heres a couple of pictures of the little ones the day they hatched and the area their nest was.  They aren't like other baby birds in the fact as soon as they dry off, they have feathers and look

quite a lot like the adults.  They remind me of little colored cotton balls on toothpicks!  Aren't they cute?