maureen

Hi all, I have been a bird watcher for as long as I can remember but have only recently started to study and try to differentiate their calls, songs, and names.  I live on Maui and my husband and I were able to see a Japanese White-Eye or Mejiro nesting in a ti leaf plant right outside our living room window.  The pair of birds nested for about 10 days and then hatched 3 babies.  For the next ten days the pair took turns feeding the three and continuing to keep them warm.  It was amazing to watch the progression from newly hatched and on to fledgling.  We watch the three take their first tentative steps and trial flights out of the nest and on to the leaves and branches of the ti leaf plant.  Within a half hour two of the three had flown off.  The third departed about 15 minutes later.  I'm sorry I don't have pictures to accompany my entry but hopefully I will become better with the camera.