Mr. and Mrs. Robin have returned and are raising two babies this year! Or maybe it's three. It's hard to tell from this angle but I don't dare get any closer; Mrs. Robin divebombed my head when I went in the backyard to snap a picture of her little brood yesterday. She's such a good mother, protecting her babies! I've lost count of how many years running we've had baby robins on our kitchen greenhouse window. I just don't have the heart to remove the nest once they're finished with it every spring. I don't know that it would do any good anyway -- they'd probably just build a new one next year! Aren't their babies cute?
4 comments:
Excellent shot. They can be aggressive when protecting the nest!
Darryl and Ruth : )
I'm so jealous! I would never remove the nest. They are adorable!
It's now spring of 2012, are the Robins back?
They have not! Bummer! I finally asked Pat to remove the nest over the winter, and they did not decide to make a new one. Or at least not yet, anyway. At any rate we have robins in our yard every day, pulling up worms, so I imagine they're nesting nearby. I love watching them out our kitchen window -- they're so cute!
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