Spring is in the air, and that can only mean one thing: babies, babies everywhere! It’s nesting season, and many bird species spend this time of year finding a mate, building a nest, laying eggs, and raising young. 

Many of us have been lucky enough to have a bird’s nest close enough to observe. Last year, I enjoyed watching a brood of cardinals growing in my rosebush and a family of Carolina Wrens in a potted plant on my porch. If you haven’t had the joy of watching baby birds grow, we have a treat for you; these photos of baby birds are just too cute, and the perfect introduction to the spring season. 

A newly hatched fieldfare chick in its nest, opening its beak for food. 

Four baby robins wait in their nest for food. 

Two baby swallows peek out of their birdhouse hole.

Hungry baby wrens.

Five robin chicks.

Baby song thrush chicks, beaks open wide. 

A baby Caribbean flamingo and its mother. 

A female Eastern Bluebird feeds her hungry baby.

Two Great Horned Owl babies, perfectly framed by a live oak tree. 

A father robin feeds his young a tasty treat of earthworms. 

A starling feeds his nestling. 

A middle spotted woodpecker at its nest. 

A chickadee flies back to its nest to feed the chicks. 

A baby thrush sitting on a finger. 

A woodpecker feeds a chick in a nest hollow. 

A Common Tern feeds its nestlings. 

A closer shot of the baby Caribbean flamingo. 

First and second-born babies begging for food!

A nest of Northern Cardinals. 

A Northern Cardinal nest in a cedar tree with tiny hatchlings. 

An Anna’s Hummingbird feeds her chicks. 

A male Eastern Bluebird brings food to a hungry baby.

A nest full of swallow chicks. 

A mother tree swallow feeds her hungry babies. 

Feed me! A very hungry barn swallow.