The pollen fairy must have had quite the party while we were in Murrells Inlet, because when we got back home to Georgia, EVERYTHING was covered with a dusty yellow coating. The back deck was a wreck! So, after hubby blew off the wood, I took to beating the chair cushions. When I got to the loveseat, before I started whooping it with a towel, I picked up one of the back pillows and found a pile of leafy debris there. I almost just scooped it up and tossed it over the deck rail, but thankfully I paused just long enough to look at it from a different angle. Turns out, a Carolina Wren had built a nest there, where four babies were snuggled up tightly together.
Are they not the cutest things in the world!?!?
Mama has been busy, busy, busy bringing mealworms to the little ones.
I guess my two take-aways from this are:
1) Baby bird season is the best!
and
2) Always clean with caution…or…err on the safe side and don’t clean at all!
Backyard Bird Nerd 
Oh what fun you will have watching them fledgling! Yes cute (and probably terrified from cushion pounding). What a great find returning home.
What a sweet surprise! 😍
She has now moved the babies to a brush pile. Maybe she got tired of the lady with the camera on the deck!
I saw your comment above and have been wondering how the mama bird could move her chicks? Did you happen to see or take photos? Did she move the nest? Oh I’m so curious!
I did not see them move, but I have seen them over in the brush pile, and she is starting to bring them closer to the feeders. I guess they just got old enough to leave and they followed her. I sure wish I had seen it though!
Oh me too. The photo looks like the chicks were old enough to hop! Glad you saw them in their nest. That was a wonderful surprise for you!
Awwwww! What a sweet surprise!!