Baby birds hatched in our begonia hanging plant...

No. I'm not making that headline up. Tom smokes (bad boy, bad bad bad) on the front porch and he comes in from watering the hanging plants while he was out there and he's wet. Apparently he was merrily watering away when he got poured water on a momma bird that had built a nest in our begonias. Momma bird didn't like that gave him a bit of a bath. Poor plant... he's been trying to water it a little from the side to keep it alive, but we don't want to disturb them. He noticed when he was out there, a daddy bird bringing stuff back to the nest and late last week, he heard little "meep meep meep" sounds. Sure enough, the momma's babies hatched. I made him take the basket down so I could take pictures. We were fast so the parents didn't notice and were careful not to touch anything. Now he's been watching them bring the babies food back and forth at dawn and dusk. It's been really cool. I can't wait until they leave so we can take the nest down and show the kids! Here's pics of the babies... they still have fuzz! You have to look close because they are DEEP down in this plant and we didn't wanna touch anything too much... but it's right in the middle of the picture... and as always you can click for a bigger picture. I left it so you could see how they built this nest a little... it's like sideways or something. LOL. It's just weird.