How cool is this?

So I'm enjoying dinner out on my patio this evening and my (if you can call wild anything "my") birds scatter. I don't normally pay much attention to it because just someone coughing wrong downstairs could be enough to send them off, but then I here a familiar clicking on the rocks below:

This was taken from my patio! There were four total, but I never got a good picture with all of them in it. The big on in this picture was very protective of the little one. As soon as I started making too much noise it disappeared with the little one in tow.