I have been watching a male and female cardinal building a nest in one of my hanging baskets over the past few weeks, I took these pictures this morning. Looking forward to seeing young ones soon.

Anole

That's great - love to see the babies grow up!

How cool is that!! I've seen Wrens and Doves build nests in hanging basket plants before but never a Northern Cardinal. I think incubation and hatching time is about two weeks after eggs are layed .... hope you can keep us posted with more photos of the babies when they arrive!

Make sure house sparrows don't invade


If you see them destroy the nest


Other then that I wish you luck

Exciting! How much fun to watch them each day! Do they mind when you are outside near their nest?

(We have 4 pair this year coming to the feeders so I hope there's lots of babies.)

No babies yet, we stay away from the nest as much as possible and she does watch us as we work and move around in the yard. The nest is about 5 feet above the ground and protected by an overhang from the shed. She will fly away if we get too close so we try not to disturb her.

Anole

I checked the nest today while the mama bird was off somewhere. We have three newborn cardinals. I hope I can take pictures showing their development.

Anole

Oh my ... those are the cutest, bald babies ever! I do hope you will be able to get more photos as they grow, it will be easier once they get to the stage where they are climbing to the edge and peering out to see the world!

John, you should post that photo over here on : The thread "Bird photos - April 2016" in Gardening for Butterflies, Birds and Bees forum

I know everyone would love to see it!

I will post the photo there, thanks for the suggestion.

John

Oh my gosh, that made my day. What an awesome photo!!! Pretty special.....

Yay, John! New babies just make me smile - great way to start the day

How wonderful
That's the sweetest photo
Hi everyone, sorry about barging in! I couldn't just lurk anymore after seeing that photo

Jolana, barge right in! Lurking is rude. Just kidding, lurk all you like, but feel free to say hi and tell us how awesome our pictures are on the best forum on ATP!!

Sorry, don't want to be rude
There are some amazing photos on here

I'm just teasing with you, Jolana. But everyone likes compliments so you can always drop in and tell us if you like something!

I know you are teasing, I should have put a or something, I grew up with lots of brothers, I can take a teasing!!

John- Just checking back to see the progress of the baby cardinals. How are they doing?

...wondering how the babies are, John..?