Nest Update.

As some of you remember, I discovered a bird's nest in the wreath on my front door a few weeks ago. Much to my sadness, the egg inside the nest fell out during a storm and broke. However, when we were preparing to clean the nest and bird mess off the wreath, we discovered a second egg hidden inside of a fold of a ribbon (dubbed Egg Miracle #1). After carefully transferring the egg to the nest, we put the wreath back out and waited. Luckily, the mother robin returned. She's been dutifully sitting on the nest for a while, and my mom and I were wondering if perhaps the egg had hatched. Today we got our answer and a surprise, aka Egg Miracle #2.

A storm kicked up a little while ago, and the nest was swaying dangerously. Mom decided to bring the whole wreath in the house and hang it on the inside of the glass front door. Inside the nest was a teeny tiny ball of fluff that wasn't moving. We thought that perhaps the baby bird had died. While the storm was dying down, the mother robin kept coming back during the storm and hovering outside the glass just where the nest was. Finally, the winds slowed enough that we could put the wreath back outside. As my mom lowered the wreath as carefully as possible from its hook, a fluffy little head rose up out of the nest with its beak wide open. "Peep!" it cried. I was so happy that it was alive, and then the surprise. A second equally fluffy head rose up and cried, "Peep!"

I can't believe it. After all that, the mother robin somehow laid a third egg! Once the wreath was back in place came the waiting game for the mother bird to return. Thankfully, she was quick about it and went straight away to feeding the babies.

Sigh, I think that it'll be another week or so before the birds can leave the nest (some orenthological websites said that robins take about two weeks to leave the nest once hatched, and it's already been about a week, I'm estimating). I'll be sad to see them go, but also very very relieved. These storms are only going to continue and get worse with the horrible heat, and I doubt we'll be putting out a wreath again any time soon.

Nest Update.

As some of you remember, I discovered a bird's nest in the wreath on my front door a few weeks ago. Much to my sadness, the egg inside the nest fell out during a storm and broke. However, when we were preparing to clean the nest and bird mess off the wreath, we discovered a second egg hidden inside of a fold of a ribbon (dubbed Egg Miracle #1). After carefully transferring the egg to the nest, we put the wreath back out and waited. Luckily, the mother robin returned. She's been dutifully sitting on the nest for a while, and my mom and I were wondering if perhaps the egg had hatched. Today we got our answer and a surprise, aka Egg Miracle #2.

A storm kicked up a little while ago, and the nest was swaying dangerously. Mom decided to bring the whole wreath in the house and hang it on the inside of the glass front door. Inside the nest was a teeny tiny ball of fluff that wasn't moving. We thought that perhaps the baby bird had died. While the storm was dying down, the mother robin kept coming back during the storm and hovering outside the glass just where the nest was. Finally, the winds slowed enough that we could put the wreath back outside. As my mom lowered the wreath as carefully as possible from its hook, a fluffy little head rose up out of the nest with its beak wide open. "Peep!" it cried. I was so happy that it was alive, and then the surprise. A second equally fluffy head rose up and cried, "Peep!"

I can't believe it. After all that, the mother robin somehow laid a third egg! Once the wreath was back in place came the waiting game for the mother bird to return. Thankfully, she was quick about it and went straight away to feeding the babies.

Sigh, I think that it'll be another week or so before the birds can leave the nest (some orenthological websites said that robins take about two weeks to leave the nest once hatched, and it's already been about a week, I'm estimating). I'll be sad to see them go, but also very very relieved. These storms are only going to continue and get worse with the horrible heat, and I doubt we'll be putting out a wreath again any time soon.