Category Archives: birds

baby robins :: day 5

I set up my tripod and got gradually closer and closer so I could get a picture of the mom on the nest.

keeping them warm

peep

Then I got out my step stool like I have been every day to take this picture:

day 5

It ended up blurry because I was under a swift attack. The mama was really brave today. I could feel her wing against my hair. I’m afraid tomorrow I may really get pecked. I may have to talk Barry into giving it a try.

The babies look much bigger, probably double what they were when they hatched, and much darker. I wonder when their eyes will open.

day 3:: getting fluff

day 3

I guess I was lucky on the first picture of the babies because one opened its mouth for me.  This morning they were just a squirming mass, all huddled together.  The parents weren’t too happy about my intrusion.

on guard

They want to stay close now, though, so I can get pictures of them.  When the mama was sitting on the eggs she’d fly away before I could get close enough to take a picture of  her head and tail sticking out of the nest.

Verily I say… the fulness of the earth is yours, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and that which climbeth upon the trees and walketh upon the earth;

freshley hatched

a baker's dozen

make way for ducklings!

floppy and slimy

Yea, all things which come of the earth, in the season thereof, are made for the benefit and the use of man, both to please the eye and to gladden the heart;

(D&C 59:16, 18)