Robin Family 2009
June 6, 2009, the first egg.
June 7, 2009, the second egg.
She just laid the third egg.
June 8, 2009, egg number three. The newest one is on the bottom. You can see that the texture is different from the other two.
June 10, 2009. Mama was on her nest all day yesterday. She probably laid the fourth egg yesterday, but because she started incubating, and because of bad weather, this morning was the first chance I got to see the fourth egg.
Michael moved the deck umbrella over the nest so it would be protected from the rain.
Mama Robin.
Mama taking a break and Dad keeping watch.
June 21, 2009, Father's Day at 5:30 AM. The last of the four eggs hatched. Mama wasn't happy with me taking pictures. She had been out collecting breakfast. She flew over my head to tell me to stop bothering the children.
June 21, 2009, 11:30 AM. Where do the shells go? My Mama, told me that the mama bird takes the shells away so they don't attract snakes or other animals. And people say animals are stupid - - ha!
I think it was the Daddy bird who sat on a tree branch close to the nest while I took pictures. I tried to do it really fast. He didn't seem to mind. Mama must have been out looking for lunch.
Mama is keeping a close eye on me and on her babies
June 22, 2009
June 23, 2009. Everyone up and hungry!
June 24, 2009, sleeping babies.
June 25, 2009. Look at those feathers.
June 25, 2009
June 25, 2009
June 26, 2009. Their eyes are open!
June 26, 2009. Napping.
June 27, 2009
Faces only a mother could love. Not really - - I think they're pretty cute.
June 27, 2009 Lunch time.
June 28, 2009. It's getting very crowded.
Mama
Daddy
Mama
June 28, 2009. They are hungry ALL the time.
June 28, 2009
June 29, 2009
June 29, 2009
June 29, 2009
June 30, 2009. I think they will be leaving in just a few days. It's very crowded in their little nest.
June 30, 2009
June 30, 2009
June 30, 2009
June 30, 2009
July 1, 2009
July 1, 2009. This is the last picture of all four babies together. This one was taken at 12:00 noon. At about 4:30 PM Mama and Daddy were nowhere to be seen, and there was a lot of noise at the back of the yard that sounded like robins. At about 5:30 PM, Mama came back, but didn't feed the babies while I was watching. Did the fourth baby leave the nest, get pushed out or fell out? We don't know.
July 1, 2009 We looked all over to see if the baby fell out of the nest, but we didn't see anything.
July 2, 2009. The babies have been very busy (just not when they know I'm watching). They have been standing, preening and picking at each other.
July 2, 2009
July 2, 2009
July 3, 2009 I took this about 60 seconds before they flew away. I was so surprised that they just flew away that I didn't get a picture. They all went in different directions. Mama came back about 10 minutes later, looked in the nest and she flew off, too.
June 6 the first egg was laid and July 3 they all left the nest. Pretty amazing!