We had a wonderful experience with our baby robins. We got to watch them hatch and grow from ugly flesh-colored mutants to fluffy birds. Their mom would get so angry with us whenever we'd get close to the nest. We wouldn't touch...just look. Once she actually swooped by Pete's head as a warning. She would go into our maple tree and squawk at us for being too close. She never went too far from the nest--very protective.
One day we found one (dead) on the ground and also an egg shell. So, we ended up with only 2 baby birds, not four.
We noticed this past week that the nest is now empty. Birds are grown and flying, so we are suffering from "empty nest" syndrome here (ahahah--SO BAD! My professor would be proud of that one). Here are some pics of our robins getting bigger.
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