We have baby robins in our yard! PICs

[TJN23]

have a look at the little guys

EDIT: taken with my Canon S230

 

[bacillus]

that's a wonderful sight!

 

[chr6]

what did you name them?

 

[Ime]

Hope you didn't touch 'em. I'd hate for their parents to leave them to die.

 

[TJN23]

no way the mommy is quite protective....she flies back and forth from the woods and grass to bring them some tasty worms....mmmm

 

[thenerdguy]

Dood they will be eating size in a few months!

 

[SoylentGreen]

They are overpopulating! GAS THEM NOW!

 

[anno]

there was a family of baby wrens hopping around on my deck yesterday learning to fly, they were so cute..

today it was adolescent cardinals.. also too cute, with their feathers lookin' like they just got out of bed, all stickin' up on top of their heads.

of most interest to my cats (who are doing 24/7 guard duty and going to have a nervous breakdown soon) are the baby chimney swifts in the fireplace. well.. thankfully they're not in the fireplace, they're in their nest on the damper (which is broken, so it doesn't close all the way).. so the cats can see them.. the parents spend a fair bit of time in the fireplace, especially at night.. I think the light from the room must attract them..

 

[notfred]

I once found a young robin that was hopping around on the ground beneath some large redwood trees. It didn't quite know how to fly yet, and it was in an area with a large number of cats. It's mother was flying around looking very distraught about the whole thing, but she couldn't do anything about it. I ended up taking the bird to a place called Native Animal Rescue that raises birds and other animals that got into these types of situations, then lets them go when they're big enough to fend for themselves.

Several years after that, I was at work, on the second floor, and there was a very loud chirping bird noise. I thought that a bird must be sitting right outside the open (but with a screen) window and chirping into the building for it to be that loud, but I looked over to the window and there was no bird. A few minutes later I got up from my desk and turned around, and there was a baby mockingbird standing on the floor behind me, chirping at me. He had hopped in the door downstairs and all the way up the stairs to the second floor, and into my office. I took him to Native Animal Rescue as well.

 

[helloedchen]

Originally posted by: notfred
I once found a young robin that was hopping around on the ground beneath some large redwood trees. It didn't quite know how to fly yet, and it was in an area with a large number of cats. It's mother was flying around looking very distraught about the whole thing, but she couldn't do anything about it. I ended up taking the bird to a place called Native Animal Rescue that raises birds and other animals that got into these types of situations, then lets them go when they're big enough to fend for themselves.

Several years after that, I was at work, on the second floor, and there was a very loud chirping bird noise. I thought that a bird must be sitting right outside the open (but with a screen) window and chirping into the building for it to be that loud, but I looked over to the window and there was no bird. A few minutes later I got up from my desk and turned around, and there was a baby mockingbird standing on the floor behind me, chirping at me. He had hopped in the door downstairs and all the way up the stairs to the second floor, and into my office. I took him to Native Animal Rescue as well.

you're the birdman!