Revealing the Nugget in my Pine Tree

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Yesterday I posted about a nugget I found in my pine tree in the back yard. A fairly large nest too high for me to see. As I walked back inside from trying to figure out what the nest was, I kept hearing mockingbirds making a lot of chatter. I kept looking and listening. And figured it out. It was their nest and I spotted a baby on the ground, he just flew out of the nest. I almost stepped on him, he was so small. The sounds from the parents were telling the baby to be still. A danger call to the baby. And he was frozen. I snapped these photos above. I looked again at the high nest and there was another baby perched on the limb, just outside the nest. He was getting ready to fledge as well. If you look closely you can see him on the limb, beneath the nest in the photo. And the other photo is the male mockingbird as he was chattering away to the babies. These birds are not large. They are about 10 inches long and they sing all day long. They built the perfect nest. Now you know the rest of the story about that nugget of a nest in my pines. More to come on the wren and cardinal nests in the front yard when I get time.