Baby birds everywhere!!

Rich and I kept finding mud on our cars. Seemed like strange places for mud and perfect round spots of it??? And shortly after washing the cars, the mud was there?? What the?

Then we noticed the mud on the barn walls, too -
And you can't see it in this photo, but all along the top of the door guard was mud. Bits of mud all along the whole length of it!

Then slowly we saw one mud pile starting to form -

The Phoebes are making a new nest!! YAY!! GOOD spot for it! For years they nested above the light in one of the horse stalls. That was fine, but the feral kitties could sit at the top of the stalls and swat at them as they flew in and out. NOT a good idea. Bird brains!! They finally either were caught by a kitty or something else happened because they finally abandoned that nest. This new location is a much better idea! Funny how they had to try the mud all along the ledge before settling on that one spot. And why drop the mud as they worked? I don't know, but pretty soon I think we will have fledglings!

We already have fledgling sparrows on the porch light. They are feathering out and pooping all over the place. I noticed another pair of finches (?) making a nest on the lamp at the front door. So far, nobody has settled in the bird house out back. The blue birds usually take that, but they didn't do it last year? It may need to be cleaned out? We have never had to do that, but it may be "spoiled"?

Babies, babies, babies. :D