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 Last year, a HUGE highlight of my summer was the baby hummingbirds that I discovered in a nest just a couple of feet outside my dining room window: But I only noticed them after they were this big, and we were on vacation when they learned to fly and they were gone by the time […]  On Friday I got to play photographer with my friend’s brand new nephew; he was only seven days old! He was my very first real newborn shoot, if you don’t count Emily (and in fact, the pathetic newborn shots I took of her are a HUGE reason I became so passionate about photography–I have nothing […]  I’m taking a photography workshop, and my last assignment was to make a storyboard of a particular stanza from a Dr. Seuss book. We shopped and we shopped for all the right stuff, and then came home and gave it a whirl. We might have gone a tad more on the literal side than was […]  At the last minute we ALMOST got to spend Mother’s Day with my mom (Grammie, to Emily!) and sister, but our plans changed in the end when my poor sister ended up sick for her Mother’s Day… So we went back to our original plan of spending the day at Tom’s and my alma mater (and […]
 We don’t go the traditional birthday party route all that often, but at Christmas my friend Laura and I found these adorable pink and green candy ornaments, and a perfect-for-Emily party was born! Happy green and warm pink have been Emily’s and my favorite colors for what seems like forever, so this was the ideal […]  I imagine my neighbors, had they been peering out their back window and through our broken fence (which has since been fixed–HUGE sigh of relief from yours truly), would think I have lost it just a little bit if they saw me the other evening. I was laying on the ground with my camera, spraying […]  …We went VERY QUICKLY from this: …to this: …and it was the happiest day of my life! For all too short a time we had this: Now we have this: And sometimes this: And always this: I love you, my darling Emily! You are an amazing girl, and you make my heart sing every day… I […]  These bushes have been in my backyard since before we moved in nearly 15 years ago, and they are just thriving! They are deciduous, so they look like ugly sticks in the wintertime, but they make me fall in love with them all over again every spring when they bloom profusely with these delicate, sweet-smelling […] |
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Did you have to climb the tree to get the shot? LOL. I think it’s great you were able to get mama bird on the nest. I Also like your processing.
Aww! 🙁 That’s sad! Mean crows. These are beautiful Jessica, I love your processing on them. I hope they come back next spring too!
Christy, I had to stand on a chair to get high enough to see inside her nest, but it was only about 2 feet from the window, so she was REALLY close, which made it SO exciting!
*Sniff sniff* I need a tissue! I wonder what happened? You must have been beside yourself when you discovered this. I hope she comes back, if she survived the attack. The photos are gorgeous and I was so excited to see her babies. I’m so sorry, sweetie!
Gorgeous images! So sad to see the nest got destroyed, though. 🙁
Oh, I was getting excited to see humming birds in action 🙁 Sigh, Mother Nature! But, AWESOME job on capturing the nest, eggs and mama! Fun to see a hummingbird sitting still.
sadness 🙁 but i will say, these are great shots. i love the egg shot!
Oh that is so sad! Your photos of the story are beautiful though. Hopefully mama will come back next year.
Aww, poor lil’ birds!! Beautiful pictures though 🙂 Maybe you can hang a feeder to encourage more birds to come back??
Aww..that is such a sad little story. Poor mama hummingbird. 🙁 Beautiful shots.
I was also going to ask how you got those photos! Very nice. I love the ones with the eggs. We had a bird nest last year – she actually made one on the ledge of our brick column just under the roof! We were very careful not to disturb them. It was a great little lesson for my son!
Aww you have such a sweet heart. Poor mama bird!
These are just…wow!!! Beautiful. I am sorry…I teared up too, I hope they will be back! 🙁 I would leave out some nesting stuff for them! You can buy some raw wool and hang it in your yard, stuff like that, to encourage them. 🙂 Glad you got it documented!
I am so sorry. That is so sad. I hope that they do return.