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Phoebe Quartet
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Here's a quartet of Eastern Phoebes singing for you! (One little guy has his butt to the camera, hidden between bird #1 and bird #2 on the left of the photo). These little guys were hatchlings about five days ago; soon they will be trying their wings and leaving home.

Eastern Phoebes prefer to make their mudded nests on man-made objects and shelters; in this instance, under the eave (and directly over the doorway, ahem) of my husband's workshop. The name "phoebe" is thought to come from the sound that they make, a "FEE-bee, FEE-bee" type sound.

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chameleon said:

What a joyful chorus these little ones must make. Your hubby will have to wear a cap for just a little while longer!  We have swallows that do the very same thing with their nests and even had one many years back attached to the siding of our stucco home.  Our poor kitty was never the same after being dive-bombed numerous times by mama bird.  

3:23 PM on May 21, 2008