Baby Robin

by Audrey
(Hernando, MS)

Fledgling Robin

One day as I was out in the backyard I saw something run past me really fast. I followed it & saw that it was a baby bird.

It ran through the chain link fence to where I couldn't get to it. Of course since I am an animal lover & didn't know if it had fallen out of the nest I wanted to check & see if it was alright.

So, I ran into the house to get my mom & told her that there was some kind of baby bird in the yard but I didn't know what kind it was.

So we went out front & caught it. It perched on our fingers so we knew that it was a fledgling. I held it while my mom went inside & called some friends of ours that work with a wildlife rehibilitation program.

Our friend asked us if the bird was injured & we said we didn't think it was, so she said to let it go, watch it for a few minutes & see what happened.

We let it go & it hopped around a little. It had been chirping this whole time & it continued to.

We saw two grown robins coming towards it on the ground & thought maybe they were its parents.

Sure enough the baby robin went towards the two grown ones & they went off together.