Nature is cruel

These birds nested right outside my screened in porch and I’ve been watching the eggs and then the baby birds.

Today, I heard a lot of noise and when I looked up, a crow had snatched the baby bird out of its nest. It flew away, pursued by the parents, landed on our garage roof and tore the little bird apart to eat it, in spite of the parents attacking it.

The pic is of the parents periodically returning to the empty nest and tweeting at it. :(

Not what I had expected to see on a beautiful spring afternoon…