Busy Mommy
Posted on July 17, 2016 in Animals, Birds, Wildlife
This is a very busy mommy robin. She had her first brood this Spring and I watched the two babies take their first flight in late June. The nest was in the Yew bush right in front of my house and just about 6 feet from the ground. This weekend I saw mommy robin back in the nest with her second brood of babies on the way. She doesn’t mind me being in the yard, even mowing the grass. But, if I walk over and talk to her, she squawks and flees the nest, keeping an eye on me from a nearby tree. I added a nesting box to the front porch, hoping that it would be useful, but it looks as though this mommy likes the comforts of a familiar home. Below is a cell phone photo (terrible!) of one of the babies from the first brood after it flew from the nest for the first time.