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House finches that visit my back yard are the subjects of most of these pictures. In late April of 2002, a female house finch began building a nest in a bird feeder that hangs less than six feet from my back door. She laid her first egg on April 30th and continued to lay one egg a day for the next five days. The first egg hatched on May 14th, and by May 18th there were five chicks and no visible eggs in the nest. It wasn't until May 29th, the day after the first three chicks flew away, that I saw the partially hatched sixth egg. It had been under the chicks. The last two chicks left on May 30th, just after dawn.

All photos are copyright © Roberta Stacy and may not be used or displayed without permission.

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house finch drinking water house finch, female, on birdbath female house finch on nose of metal dog house finch, female house finches, two males
house finch eggs house finch hatching chick house finch eggs & chick house finch eggs & new chick new house finch chick
house finch chicks house finch feeding chicks house finch feeding chicks house finch chicks house finch chicks
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house finch chicks house finch chick house finch chicks house finch mom & chicks house finch feeding chicks
house finch mom & chicks house_finches_ house finch feeding chicks house finch feeding chicks house finch family
female house finch  house finch chick house finch chick house finch chicks house finch chicks

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