Camp Verde Arizona. This is an artificial tree right by my back patio door.
Keeping
those eggs warm. This picture was taken through the screen from
inside the house.
They were so small
when they hatched that we thought that something was wrong so we
didn't capture the first of the eggs hatching. Little did we know
they were only the size of raisins when they come out of the egg.
In less than a week and they have grown so much?
I tried to capture a picture of her feeding them but I couldn't get
that close. I suspect that one will fly out of the nest within
the next few days. They look ready to me.
The
first one left the nest and then returned and spent the night in the
nest. The next day he left and has not returned to the nest but comes to the tree.
I suspect he is encouraging this one to leave the nest. The mother
bird is still feeding both of them. She finds the other one in the
tree or where ever he may be and feeds him or her, can't tell if it is
male or female.