Ok...we might not have all the beautiful flowers growing around us out here in Squiggeeland,too hot , but we have birds galore....Now this Spring rolled around and a Mother Robbin decided to make her nest and bring up her family , on our front porch , in the top of the light.....well we watched her babies grow and then fly away...when the nest was abandoned, my husband removed it from the top of the outside light and pitched it in the front yard........a couple of days later when he went to find the nest to dispose of of it...it was gone...low and behold, it was back on top of the light... clearly it was too big for just one bird to lift...spooky.....then the Mother Robbin was back and using the nest again... then a new batch of three babies appeared....clearly, Mrs. Robbin needs birth control...so this is a photo I snapped this morning of the babies, waiting for Mom to return with breakfast...you can see her circle with a big juicy worm hanging from her beck....
they are getting fat and big, so should be flying soon......I fear that the light is a permanent home, so we will just leave the nest alone.....after all they are family now!
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They are determined and have great ingenuity when they select a homesite. I had a tiny little wren that kept building nests in my mailbox if I left it open for an afternoon. LOVE those birdies.
We have starlings that nest in the rafters at the shop. They return and use the nests year after year! Amazing!
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