The House Finch

Every spring I see the robins stand in front of our front porch, gazing into our porch with visions of perfectly safe & dry nests to lay their eggs. Well after the first time we let a robin build her nest, and bird mites infested our porch furniture (not fun at all), we decided to put little stuffed animals in each corner of the porch to prevent little mama robins from building their nests. I thought I was home free...until I saw this little grey bird fly out of my fern hanging on the porch. (Great picture courtesy of Papa)

And then we looked inside the fern and found her little nest filled with 5 speckled eggs...

Daddy finch is very involved...always keeping lookout for the very loud human named Matthew who can be quite unpredictable and did I mention loud :) 

But even though...I think they like their little home. 

Looking forward to meeting baby finches soon!