Visitors

Meet the Chirpingtons! Our humble little condo out in the backyard is doing a booming business. The Tweetwells were there last month and now we have the Chirpingtons. They moved in soon after the Tweetwells. Mom and pop were in and out for probably 2-3 weeks and then a couple weekends ago we heard little chirps coming from inside.

A few days later we finally saw some movement and checked them out with the binoculars that now live on our kitchen windowsill. I stared at them for awhile and couldn't figure out what the hell I was looking at. The binoculars were definitely in focus, but what I was seeing didn't make any sense. It was some sort of weird blob that didn't look remotely like baby birds. Chris checked it out figuring I didn't know how to use binoculars since that what he's always inclined to think in such instances, but it didn't make any sense to him either.

Then he figured it out. Triplets! Their crazy stretched out beaks were piled on top of each other making it hard to figure out what they were. I don't know if the Chirpingtons are just super tired because they have triplets or if the Tweetwells were just overprotective, but we were able to get right up to the birdhouse to take pictures of these guys. Aren't they cute with their giant beaks?