The nest was built on June 10. Three eggs were laid soon after, and two babies hatched on June 25.
My husband said we should remove the nest: they will make a lot of noise, they will make a mess, and the parents will dive-bomb us when we are in the front yard.
I held my ground. I wanted to watch what happens!
Well, it turns out he was wrong! The only mess so far has been cherry pits(there's an orchard nearby).
The babies make no noise at all, even when they are feeding.
I can work in the flower bed directly in front of the nest while Mom repeatedly flies in and feeds her babies.
She sits on the nest and will tolerate me coming in close to take photographs.
I can even climb on the porch chair to check on the baby's progress when she is away.
True, we don't use the front door, but what a wonderful gift on my porch!
I've been watching this precious young Robin for a couple of weeks now.
Actually, there are two of them but I will call this one Rob.
I wish I could have been there to see its first flight but for now, I observe how brave he is in his continuing to gather goodies flying from limb to limb with a bit of a wobble still.
It is July 7, 2020. He doesn't let me bother him at all, the two are so much fun to watch.
I am not sure which is female or male but love the name Rob for now.
These beauties live here on an island, Drummond Island, in Drummond Island, Michigan.
I just had to share this sweet feathered friend. Please enjoy!
So sorry. I think this is possible for anyone with a bird bath. I'm going to check mine more often now!
Concern about having a robin nest close to my back years door... by: Dimitra karagiannis
Returning at my home after a long period of time ready to start enjoying my back yard after along winter I heard a robins sound.
I got back into the house it was already dark anyway. The next morning we discover that next to our door there’s a nest with 4 robins eggs.
Now we don’t know what to do because we want to go and enjoy our environment but we’re to concern not to frighten the robin mother since the eggs haven’t hatch yet.
The worse fear is that we have few squirrels around and we cannot be there all the time to keep them away.
We only hope everything will turn out ok since somewhat the Robin's feels it’s under our protection.
A passing thought by: chinadol
As I was reading this, I thought that maybe the poor thing was sick, infected or something. Poor little thing.
On the 20 of December 2018, I found myself homeless, all I had was my pop-up tent and pushbike.
It was the early hours of the morning, freezing cold.
I decided to pitch my tent up in one of the local parks. I found a good spot out of the way with hedges surrounding my tent on top of a hill.
I woke up the next morning with a faint tapping noise outside. I unzipped the door and to my amazement, a Robin was pitched outside staring at me.
Hello, I said as his head moved from side to side. It looked as if he was trying to work me out.
Anyway, I stayed on top of that hill for just over a year and in that time my friend used to fly into my tent and perch on my knee, eating breakfast every morning right beside me.
I made a flat piece of wood outside my tent to eat my food.
Right beside my bowl, he had his crushed-up biscuit and he would fly in and start pecking away.
I once put a shaving mirror up and was crazy to see him flying into it after watching him do this a number of times I took the mirror down for his safety.
If I had overslept in my tent he would continually tap on the outside. I captured my friend on my phone by video and photo just to prove his amazing behavior. Unbelievable!
Early in the morning, these beautiful birds were chirping so loudly, it was so captivating.
Noticing the bright red color on its chest grabbed my attention. It was such an angelic view.
The sun hitting the trees the brightness of the whole image was so pure, nothing compares to actually looking at these birds playing in the water puddles from the sprinklers in the grass, in person rather than what you see in just a captured image.
They flapped their wings up and down, happily giving me a sense of freedom.