A New Neighbor

I was doing some work in the yard this evening and found half of a tiny egg shell sitting in the mulch under a tree in our front yard. I discovered a bird's nest in this tree last year, but when we did our spring clean up a few months ago I had Willy remove the old nest. So I was a little surprised to look up and see the tail of a bird, which was sitting atop, you guessed it, a nest!

I don't know if the egg shell was from a hatched or eaten bird, but it was empty. I wish I'd taken a pic of that too. Anyway, here's our new neighbor guarding her baby/ies. You know I'm going to be out there every day now checking for progress!