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May 1, 2008: New Life
This baby robin is about 1 hour out of the shell.
xoxoxoBruce Wednesday Apr 30 11:35 PM
Hey, it's Jerry Colona. 
SPUCK Thursday May 1 05:35 AM
Where's the bacon and onions?
DucksNuts Thursday May 1 06:48 AM
Gorgeous coloured eggs.
sweetwater Thursday May 1 08:01 AM
here is a description of the color
xoxoxoBruce Thursday May 1 09:16 AM
Where was mom-bird, dive bombing your head?
Sheldonrs Thursday May 1 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Hey, it's Jerry Colona.
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Trilby Thursday May 1 09:43 AM
Happy Beltane, ya'll!!!
xoxoxoBruce Thursday May 1 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Sheldonrs
SOMEONE is showing their age. hahahaha!!!
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:p
Sheldonrs Thursday May 1 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
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xoxoxoBruce Thursday May 1 11:43 AM
Why you.... uh, what was I saying? Where am I? Who am I?
glatt Thursday May 1 11:55 AM
"I'm cold, and those teenagers are scaring me."
Trilby Thursday May 1 12:59 PM
great one, glatt!
classicman Thursday May 1 01:28 PM
Its right outside the bathroom window at my parents house - Momma bird was off getting food for the baby as soon as she saw the shell crack. We can open the window a bit and watch it unfold in real time - Its been amazing.
*note* times like this I wish I had a real camera...
Cicero Thursday May 1 04:33 PM
I have been looking for somewhere to post this..You can beat me up if you want to...So cute!!! (I don't normally get gushy but this is too much!!)
Sundae Thursday May 1 06:03 PM
Beautiful Classic
Oh I wish you'd had a time-lapse set up!
Though it reminds me how alien baby birds look.
An ex told me a story of how as a child he thought he had found a troll who had crawled out of a drain - turned out to be a baby bird fallen from its nest.
Cic
Cute, but I can't help think of this
Not for those who don't like to face the reality of their food
xoxoxoBruce Thursday May 1 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by classicman
We can open the window a bit and watch it unfold in real time - Its been amazing.
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Imigo Jones Friday May 2 01:27 AM
| Its right outside the bathroom window at my parents house |
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Cool, I have Cardinals that hatch out a brood in the Yew by my front door every year. You're lucky to have an observation point that won't freak Mama bird.
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Then one day the eggs were totally missing. Calls to bird people reinforced my suspicions that blue jays or, more likely, crows had taken them for breakfast
(both of these are in abundance in the neighborhood--as are cardinals, robins, mourning doves, etc., fortunately). Could've been a raccoon or opossum, too.Last year I was pruning a forsythia, and a cardinal came flying out when my head was just a couple feet away from its nest in an adjoining shrub. Glad it's not the attacking kind! The next few days, but only if the parents were off, I'd look at the cardinal eggs in the nest, and I showed the neighbor whose peonies are close to the forsythia, by standing behind the peonies and bending the branch down enough. But I must've showed the predators, too--the eggs were soon gone! Once again, it was probably jays or their dastardly kin the crows (probably too flimsy a shrub for a predatory or scavenging mammal to try climbing--no, not my neighbor, either
). Immediately, though, the cardinals were rebuilding the nest in a Christmas tree-like juniper close to the driveway and my car, about 10 feet from the forsythia. My frequent proximity that first day, though--walking right between my car and the head-high nest a lot while doing yardwork--drove them off before they completed the nest.
They moved to an unpruned privet 5 feet back and set up house there. This place worked, and I guess they had a successful brood. Later in the summer, as in most summers, there are times when I saw five or six or more cardinals feeding together--loosely "together," like all in the same part of the backyard and sorta going around "grazing" after each other from low perch to ground to low perch.
spudcon Saturday May 3 02:10 PM
Just received this in my email. Don't know its origin.
The Woman is Abagail Alfano of Pine, Louisiana - she has been studying them daily and one morning put the cup from the feeder, with water in it, in her hand; as they had gotten used to her standing by the feeder they came over to her hand. She says in touching they are as light as a feather. Abagail also said, 'if she had known her husband was taking pictures she would have put on makeup.'
SPUCK Sunday May 4 05:08 AM
Or taken off her dress..
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