It's been a long time coming...

I wrote here  about our birdhouse and it's visitors this spring,

 

and here  about that intruder. He and his band stayed around, 
set up house in our trees, and had babies of their own, 
all the while chasing off any sparrows or finches that showed interest in our birdhouse. 
It was so strange.

 

Then one day the intruder and his marauding band were gone and this happened.

It was a long time coming which made it all the sweeter.

The whole neighborhood seemed to come for the happy event.

 :)