Busy Mommy

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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.

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