Old MacDonald had a farm...

We've had a few extra critters around here lately. Yard work, spring time - the types of things that bring all sorts of new life around.

Christopher has really gotten into putting on Matt's straw hat and going outside to check on the plants and see if any animals are visiting us.

Not too long after we put plants in the back yard, one of our rosemary bushes became a sanctuary for three baby rabbits. Right here you can see at least two of them.

Here's a better shot of one. They were just hanging out under there for a few days. They didn't run away or even move when we got close, but they were probably too young to know any better. So yeah, there were three. Then the next day there were two...and the next day one...we told Christopher that the mommy had just been coming back to take them home...

Then a pair of birds decided to build a nest on top of our front porch light. Four eggs, and all four babies hatched and lived. You can just see the tops of their fuzzy little heads here. I couldn't really get any pictures of them as they got older because of:
- the momma bird. Standing sentinel over her little brood. The parents both starting getting pretty agressive with people who came up on the front porch once the babies had hatched. They wouldn't actually touch anyone, but they would be really loud and fly pretty close. The babies have now grown up and flown away. So we cleared the nest. Then two days ago, another nest was built. And the cycle begins again.