Life's Wonders

This may very well be one of those photos that is better left on my hard drive or memory card but I am just so excited about the nest, I want to show/tell everyone about it. I have a Lotus vine (also known as parrots beak) that is quite happy after the winter rains, growing as a hanging plant on my patio. A few days ago I noticed some stuff was coagulating in the leaves - I checked it out and figured it was probably an abandoned nest with engineering malfunctions. But I left it alone. I went out again today to look closer after watching a bird poking around at it. It is a full blown, beautifully built nest. Not the sit-on-top type. It is more like a sac. A perfectly round hole, aka doorway, was built right into the top third of the little palace. It is so cool! It is made of feathers, reindeer moss, leaves, fur and all kinds of other stuff. I guess I should take a macro shot so you can see the mastery weaving. It's truly amazing. I believe it is a house finch nest mainly because that is what I see feasting most often on a feeder I have on the other side of my patio. I am so excited to see what comes of it - maybe there are already little eggs in there. I am not sure, I can't see down through the hole and I don't want to upset my new house mates.