Many of you might remember a post I did a few weeks ago about a bird egg I found and put in a new Robin’s nest. That post can be found here. Since that time, all three eggs have incubated and I now have this…
These are three hard to distinguish babies that only seem to be awake when either of the parents are there to feed them. This photo is close to a week old and this is today’s…..
While there are three babies, and there were three eggs, I do not know for certain that the egg I found and placed is one of these little guys. The bird that is facing us on the far right appears to have more hair than the other two. I don’t know for sure, and they are difficult to photograph, but as time goes on I will see if I indeed saved a bird. How exciting!
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How special to track it all from the beginning. They look alike. Can hardly wait to see changes!
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Do all baby birds look alike at this stage?
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I don’t know. Interesting thought. I just remembered the story of The Ugly Duckling; maybe they do.
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🙂
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Aw, what cutie patooties!! It won’t take long and they’ll be little fledglings, spreading their wings. The beaks are often different, but I guess wait and see if you have an oddball in the nest. How cool to think mama and papa would have raised an orphan!
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Yes, is is very cool and the parents don’t seem to mind at all that I climb a ladder to shoot their offspring. When I am leaving and carrying the ladder, one of them returns carrying a worm like thing and isn’t even 5 feet from me.
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Wow, what a sight.. good job Mike, giving them a nest to call home. Did you TWEET about this milestone?
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Ouch!
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I don’t tweet, but the question is cute, Amit. Thanks.
Play nice, Emilio.
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I was! The “tweet” made me smile.
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I know. Just razzing you. It made me smile too.
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This same thing occurred with us last year on our patio. A nest of hummingbirds. It really was exciting until they were old and strong enough to fly away. Then there really was a sense of loss.
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I don’t think I’ll be feeling much loss, unless Pumpkin gets to the baby birds when they hop down. She would rather eat a baby bird than anything in the world. She has provided evidence of this over the years.
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Guess I’m just a softy!
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How science experiment of you! Bet mama bird won’t care. She will just feed them all and help them learn to fly. Great pictures!
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Well thanks. Hopefully we are out of the area when they hop out of that nest. Pumpkin loves to eat baby birds. That would be a tragic end to a great story, having my beloved dog murder the little peepers.
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Awww – they are so cute 🙂
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Cute in a prehistoric creature kind of way.
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Awesome!
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One of them will be flying south for the winter, and will be looking for you.
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Reblogged this on Attorney at Law Jan Vajda Namestovo, Slovakia.
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Thank you.
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Sweet shots. I hope the parents are successful with all three chicks.
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And I hope they become important citizens in the bird world.
Thanks.
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You’re a regular birdman! 🙂
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I missed my shot at Alcatraz.
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amazing!! what great shots and what a great close up look. thanks for sharing
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My pleasure, and thank you.
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Really special photos and what joy this family is bringing you!
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Thank you very much, and yes, I am getting perhaps more joy than one might expect.
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It is hard to distinguish kinds at this point, but it will be fun to figure it out as they grow. How awesome it is. I still see Baby Bano in the lilac trees, and I have seen not only his mom, but also what appears to be his sibling. Happy dance!
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You are one of the smartest, nicest, and coolest people I know Lilly.
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You just want to be in my will. 🙂 Done!
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😉
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Are you getting the flash floods and tornadoes? It keeps saying Fort Collins is getting those, but my son says not in his part of the city, at least.
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Yes, so exciting and great pictures!!!!
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Thanks Katherine. It is quite the trick on a ladder. The 3 of them are all snugged in a small and perfectly built nest.
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How fantastic Mike! I can’t wait to see what kind of bird it is that you rescued. Wouldn’t it be amazing if it was significantly different by the robins accepted it as one of their own?
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Well, the egg was the same size, and the baby is as creaturely (I made that word up) as the other two. But yeah I’m jazzed to see what it is. We just had a tremendous rain and both robins were sitting in that nest to keep the babies dry. Really something to behold.
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And if memory serves me well the other egg was a different color? How wonderful it must have been to see the two adults protecting all the eggs including the adopted one!
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Yes, the other one was white. I never saw it pushed out of the nest (but Pumpkin would have eaten it) and they may have laid another blue egg, but it very well could be the white egg that is the 3rd bird.
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Fingers crossed and tell Pumpkin to be a good girl 🙂
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Baby birds she eats like…..marshmallow peeps.
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“Sit Pumpkin.” Give her an extra milk bone from me 🙂
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Pumpkin eats baby birds?! I had to give my cat Theo a strongly worded talking-to about birds – and bunnies. He’s still allowed mice though… even if there’s still a part of me that has trouble with it.
Very exciting to see nature at work. I don’t think I would have recognized those fuzzy balls as robins. Will be waiting anxiously for updates 🙂
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Yes, Pumpkin lives to eat birds and when these guys hop down they will be in my backyard. It worries me. We will be gone for a spell two weeks from now, so maybe they will stay nested until then. I have talked to her about this but she looks at me as if to say she just wants a bird treat.
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I think I know the expression. Theo uses it on me regularly.
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😉
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A brilliant story Mike. The interesting thing was that the 3rd egg was white while the others were blue. Maybe the baby will be an albino! Looking forward to the next update to see how Number 3 is developing.
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Well you know I found that 3rd egg on a walk and placed it in the nest, yes?
It is interesting for sure. What if it rides on my shoulder?
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Oh thanks for the update. What a thrill that all 3 hatched.
I’m staying tuned!!
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Well 3 hatched. Is one of them that white egg, or was it tossed and another blue laid?
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Reblogged this on Nasramjad's Blog.
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What are they cute!
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In an ugly kind of way.
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A lovely post 🙂 I love baby birds…
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Me too, as it turns out, thanks!
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