Last week I shared a photo here on our blog & on our Facebook page of a bird’s nest with 3 little Robin’s eggs and 1 hatchling. Well today…I am sharing another photo and in this one you will see that 3 of the 4 Robin’s eggs have hatched! Yay!!!
The 4th egg never hatched and within hours of us taking this photo, it completely disappeared from the nest. As you can see…the 3 baby Robin’s are doing fabulous and growing up quickly. Within one week…they will fledge the nest and be gone!
We had a female house finch set up a nest in one of our new birdhouses we have out in the yard and next week I will check it to see if perhaps she is nesting too. House Finches love to nest in hanging baskets, small bushes, shrubs and in bird houses that are close to your house…hence the name House Finch.
I love bird watching and I am pretty pleased that we can see these moms doing a great job at rearing their broods. This Robin mom is pretty attentive to those babies needs and trust me…they are well fed!!! She seems to always be out hunting down food and as soon as she hears them cry…she is back lickety split.
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how cute! I’ve raised a baby robin, and once, a robin made a nest right outside my window growing up, it was fun to watch!
OMG, how precious! When I lived in Las Vegas, there was a mourning dove nest right outside my window at work…in a palm tree! For some reason I never thought of nests in palm trees. It was so much fun to watch the progress from the unhatched eggs, to new chicks, to finally seeing the fledglings fly away.
I pray that nothing happens to them and they do not fall out of the nest. There is a bird next in my neighbors eave of her house, and the baby fell and died. It was so sad. I just love seeing the new babies hatch and be born. I can not wait to see what they look like when they get bigger. Thanks for sharing a wonderful Wordless Wednesday!
I will try to get another photo…mom is being very over-protective now b/c they are almost ready to leave the nest. Matter of fact, I will be surprised if they are still in there when I go out there later today b/c yesterday they were practicing flying/flapping their wings violently in the nest. Once they leave for the first time…they are gone & don’t come back.
You can see the difference between the photos. Here they already have feathers unlike the first photo. Yet I can’t tell which was the first to hatch. Please take another photo to show us their progress before they are gone.
It’s been a long time since I have seen and Robin’s blue eggs. We get lots of common sparrows and pigeons. You are lucky!
Oh my goodness those little Robins are so tiny and precious. It’s a shame the 4th egg didn’t hatch though. It’s also hard to believe they could leave the nest in only one week? They are so little and they have no feathers?? I guess it just proves nature is a wonderful and amazing process 🙂