The chicks fledged and left the nest this morning.  As I approached the nest, I heard a soft chirping sound coming from the grass.  It was one of the chicks about 20 feet from the nest.  I found the other one over by my parents garage.  When I went to take the picture of this chick, the mother bird came flying over close to the baby to keep an eye on it.  Even though the birds have left the nest, the parents will continue to take care of them for a while longer.

The little guys appear about the same as yesterday.  Feather quantity looks the same, as does their size.  Hopefully, this means that they are developing their muscles in order to leave the nest soon.

I finally got a shot of both of the birds with their heads up looking at me.  Good thing too, because these little guys will be fledging any day now.  It looks like all of their down feathers are gone now, or very little remain.  The mother chipping sparrow keeps an eye on her babies from the power line just overhead.  She always starts chipping at me when I approach the pine tree to take a picture.

Both of the chipping sparrows have bodies full of feathers now. They both shifted in the nest and made a motion as if they were going to jump out of the nest. The birds may fledge in the next couple of days.

The chipping sparrow chicks put on alot of new feathers today.  I couldn’t see any exposed skin on either one of them.  Their backs are filling in with more brown feathers like the adults.  The down feathers are poking out now from around their sides almost exclusively now.  I must have scared one of them because it pooped as I crept in to get a look at them.  Their mother will remove it from the nest later thankfully.