No, I'm not pregnant with twins. Thank god. I probably would need to go see a therapist if that was the case!
But our momma Robin has built her nest on our garage and has quite the large stomach!
Derek and I have watched her create her nest for the babies over the past week or so and it's such an amazing feat in nature. She delicately stuffs each piece into place working day and night to make it just perfect. Whenever the garage door is opened, she freaks out and frantically flaps away. She always stays within eyesight, though, and even has protectively chirped at us when we got too close. Under the nest, however, is concrete and I'm worried about the chicks who try to fly, but just aren't quite ready yet. We might put something softer under there in case one falters.
I can't WAIT to see the little babies once they hatch!
We always have lots of spring birdie babies from nests in our carports here. Unfortunately, Minnie and I found 3 babies lying on the concrete, not moving or really struggling to do anything :(
ReplyDeleteI know it's just nature and that happens, but it made me so sad. What do you think you could put under there to help with falls? Maybe something would help. I knew for the birdies we found, their Momma wouldn't be able to get them back in the nest and that hurt me even more.
i love robins' blue eggs...such another beautiful color in nature. we had the same momma (we imagine) come back to the same spot on our patio for 3 years. it's amazing if 1 of the 3 or 4 babies makes it off the ground after "leaving" the next! and yep, that IS sad.
ReplyDelete