Work and softball and wait, cancelled due to rain that wasn't and more work work work and birthday party and Iron Man, overrated and shopping for plants and bird feeders and food and dinner at The Med in Boulder, yumity yum and planting and digging and pulling and cutting and scraping and work and trip to the pharmacy and dinner and...phew!
I forgot to add in sleep and trips to the loo, but that's more or less what I've been up to since we last typed.
This little robin has been equally busy. She's got a nest on our porch. Opening the front door scares her off so I spy on her through the window.
I've been dying to see what the eggs look like, so today I busted out a ladder and the camera while mama and papa were out on a date, or whatever birds do while they are away from the nest. Aren't they beautiful?
Mama bird hasn't been back all day. I didn't scare her away when I took my pictures, did I? I was very careful not to touch nest or eggs.
Here's a little black and orange fella feasting on the bounty in my newly hung feeder. Orange head and chest, black everything else. Oriole, perhaps? You can see him better if you click on the picture. It's not all the bad considering digital zoom was engaged and it was taken through a screen.
Then later today a big grackle was trying to figure out how to land on the feeder without tipping it. He ended up just picking the leavings out of the rocks below.
7 comments:
FOUR eggs? Girl, you scored. I thought robins only had two? I gotta go look that up...
Megan - I had to look it up too! According to this site 4 is normal.
She was gone all night though. I'm worried she's been munched by a hawk or something. Now I'm sad.
You're the second person in my blogroll to have a bird nest on the porch. Healy House is the other. I want little birdies.
We have a Grackle here at work that hangs out on the smokers ashtry and flirts with it's reflection in the mirrored glass all day.
Well, if she doesn't return you can always make an omlette...
JACC, I'll have to check out Healy House. I may not have little birdies either if mama doesn't come back.
Pugs, that's just wrong! Plus these eggs wouldn't make much of an omelette.
Did the mama come back?
Chelene - she hadn't come back by yesterday afternoon when we headed out of town. I'm not optimistic.
They say that robins return to previous nests, so we'll probably leave the nest there but take the eggs out if she's not back next week when we get home.
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