The birds and the bees

 We've had some fun spring "action" in our yard recently.  We have this nest on our patio that keeps getting occupied and rebuilt each spring and I guess it's an apartment as there is some cohabitation going on, 2 mother birds sitting in it again, I always wonder if is the same 2 from last year that sat there diligently each day.

And we have bees visiting.  A piece of the soffet on the patio was loose and they kept hanging around it, so Ken pulled it off this weekend and yep, they've already set up housekeeping.  I keep hoping that now they won't like it so much now that's its not all dark so they'll move! Perfect honeycomb being built, it's amazing to see. But how long will they stay visiting????

Cactus Wren.....we have a little Momma Bird cactus wren that we see every morning when it's just getting light on our walk.  She has 4 little poofball babies that are so cute.  She sits on them and all the sudden stands up and out they come.  Or she does this little ducking motion and they came running trying to get under here.  She yells at us each time we come by so we give her a wide birth from where she's sitting, sometimes on one side of the street and sometimes the other.  So cute.