Mrs Mistle Thrush and Baby Beak

[jacey]

Mrs Mistle Thrush has been faithfully sitting on her nest on the neighbour's windowsill - a barn conversion which overlooks our yard - for the past few weeks while Dad has stood sentinel on the ridge of our barn. Photos would only have shown a pile of twigs with a tail sticking up out of it. But today I noticed she was standing on the rim of the nest and there was little Baby Beak bobbing up and down. There seems to be only one chick. I'm not sure when he was hatched - but it can't have been more than 5 days ago as she was still sitting when we had a load of visitors who took some photos of the nest. He seems big for a hatchling. At one point he fluttered about and stretched his embryonic wings before settling back in the nest.

Anyhow my camera doesn't have a very good zoom as you can see from the lack of detail on this, but I did manage to get some pics today from inside the porch through glass.

The sparkly background is the frosted glass of the window.