The baby cardinals have been born!
At first they looked like no more than a wriggling bit of fuzz at the bottom of the nest.

Baby Cardinals
Then Mama Bird returned for a bit. She blocked my view of them, and would look over her shoulder if I so much as twitched behind the window. Amazing what having eyes on the sides of your head will do for your peripheral vision!

Mama cardinal looks over her shoulder.
When Mama Bird flew off, I could get a better shot at the hatchlings, who obviously wanted mom to come back with breakfast. You can only see two here, but later on, Barry saw a third.

Hungry hatchlings
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1 Tiana Paulsen // May 28, 2009 at 7:31 am
They look like my hatchling at 4:30 in the morning.
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