Appalachian Avian Observations

This Season brought two colorful surprises to teechur and DonDiego's backyard, . . . two birds which teechur and DonDiego hadn't seen in their previous three Springs here in the Appalachian Foothills. Real beauties !



------------------Rose-Breasted Grosbeak----------------------------------------------Blue Grosbeak-------------------------


But the big news is that no more than one yard from DonDiego's front door there's likely to be a birth in about 2 weeks or so. Mama Robin is laying a clutch of eggs in a brand new nest, . . . so far there's two, and there may be more.



-------------------------Robin's Egg Blue--------------------------------

Happy Spring ! ! !

nice and happy spring back DD

Chirp, chirp .......... Tweet, tweet.

Happy Spring !!!!!


Rick

There is a bird's nest under my deck. Last time I destroyed the nest it commenced a 3 year period of attacks on my back door and kitchen window from a disgruntled robin. The attacks have stopped so I guess we're in a truce as long I let the nest be.

UPDATE***UPDATE***UPDATE



Now there's three eggs !
Apparently lady robin's lay one egg each day, . . . until they stop, usually at four. Then they set on 'em until they hatch.
DonDiego will keep his eye on the situation.

snidely333 should let the nest alone until the robins are done hatching their brood and the little ones fly away.

Only have one egg so far in the cul-de-sac.

In reading about nesting Robins, I found that that they lay one egg a day and then purposely leave the nest alone until they lay the next day's egg. (Which is why I'm able to take a photo) They let the eggs stay cool until they are done laying and then sit on them for 14 hours a day....this way, the eggs all hatch the same day even though they were laid on different days. Mother nature is so interesting, imo.

My wife will be glad to know that. She feared we had an abandoned nest or a no-good mother robin.

The Moms are out Bobbin'.

Just yesterday we were standing at the kit sink and heard a "whack" in the dining room and sure enough a cardinal had flew into the window. I guess he/she hit it pretty hard because he was laying there flat on his back twitching and his eyes were staring straight at me, I felt really bad but I didn't know what to do. Another cardinal (its' mate?) landed on the rail and was chirping away, ir really was sad. The injured bird quit twitching after a min or so and the other one kept chirping away but it turned to a different kind of singing as the time passed. It finally flew off after about 10-13 minutes.

J