Spring Surprise

Life on the farm is peaceful, inspiring, hard-working, and the other day surprising.  The other day Seth and I were doing our daily chores while Sadie was at school when we walked along the strawberry patch and saw something exciting.  Well it was exciting a 3 and 4 year old and exciting that I could look like the super cool, super smart momma when I could actually tell them what it was and where they came from and what was inside them.  Wondering what it is yet? 

Three beautifully shaped and coloured birds eggs.  Now I at first was excited and saddened because I thought they were Robins eggs and sad because they were not going to hatch.  On closer inspection I realized that they were Starling eggs and so I wasn't too disappointed.

You see, Starlings are an annoying and vicious bird around here.  They make messes everywhere, in the barn, in our new porch (that isn't quite finished yet), even had straw and such in our BBQ last year - repeatedly!  They also steal eggs from other birds, so ya, I didn't feel especially guilty over the birds eggs falling out of the nest....ok I did feel bad for the momma bird losing her babies, I'm not a monster!

I love this photo of Sadie's hands.  Such a true farm girl photo - pink nail polish chipped off with lots of dirt under the finger nails!  That's the way mine look now (but without the nail polish, what's the point?)  So we decided that the eggs needed a nest and then needed to be taken to her class the next day so all the wee ones there could see a little nature.

This bird nest has been on my garden shed for about 3 years now so we took it down and put the eggs in.  I was a little sad to see it go but now another bird can build a new nest there.  The class absolutely loved seeing the eggs and Seth loved seeing the class, poor guy doesn't go to school for another whole year :(
Wow I can't believe I talked so much about 3 eggs we found, thanks for sticking with me through it all!  What has surprised you this spring?