We were treated to a nest full of robin's eggs in the bush at the front of the house. We kept a close eye on these eggs to see how mama robin would get along.
Sitting...waiting...and more sitting
Finally we had baby birds...ugly little things, but still a lot of fun to watch.
We had a traumatic incident. Dusty and Rachel were leaving the house to go to church when Rachel saw a bird attacking the mama robin and babies. Dusty chased it away, but not before it killed some of the nestlings. We were left with 2 survivors and a newfound disgust of crows. We cheered on the 2 babies as they grew from day to day. To Rachel's dismay, I began calling them Thor and Loki.
One day we came home to an empty nest. I don't think Thor and Loki were quite ready to leave the nest. Probably going to have to chalk this one up to Survival of the Fittest...and they didn't quite make the cut.
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