While we were cutting up Nana's fallen tree, the neighbor called J over to see something. It was a nestfull of baby birds that had fallen out of the tree. It looked like a cat or crow had removed the nest and its occupants from their perch. One of the babies had some big holes in him. The others were OK, so J put them back in, and we put the nest back in the tree with a little duct tape. (Yes, we made sure to double back the tape so that the little feathers wouldn't stick to it.)
After a few minutes, the mom returned to her flock and got on with feeding them. She looked like a female cardinal, but we weren't sure. One of the babies had a yellow stripe across his tail. Anyone know what sort of birds these are?
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