They're baaack!

Our birds are back! Last year, we had a pair of swallows
start a nest on our back porch. (Well, actually it was
3 swallows, but their alternative lifestyle is none of my business). Tommy said they pair up like that sometimes
so they have more parents to hunt for their babies. Good thing too, because last year they had 5 chicks. Well, a few weeks ago they started building another nest and then a few days ago, the eggs hatched. Once again, they had 5 babies. Hopefully they'll all make it. For some reason, their are only two parents this year. I wonder what happened to the third one. Anyway, they are driving the dog crazy and leaving a pile of bird dung all over the porch underneath the nest. All I hear is the tweet tweet tweeting of birds all day since the nest is right outside the living room. They look almost grown by now, so I think they'll be leaving the nest soon. I won't miss the tweeting, but it is pretty cool having our own little science project right outside the back door.