The Cutest-Ugly Things You ever Saw

This post is long overdue!
In the last post mrs. robin hadn't even laid her eggs yet; now, they've been laid, hatched and opened their eyes already!

Here's a summary of the last two weeks:

The firstborn!

Mrs. Robin weathering the Snow that swept in unexpectedly  on the 2nd of May . . .

A Fine Family of Three. (The family in the Riverbirch tree has four! Pictures on that family coming soon.)

Time passes . . .

Ta-Da!
Aren't they just the Cutest- ugly things you ever saw?  <3

Four days later . . .

Baby robins getting their early-late morning snack . . .    ;)

You can just hear her, "Alright robin-ettes, settle down, it's time for your early-late morning nap."

*Chorus of protests from nest*

*Tweets cut off as momma plops down* . . .

 
But, inevitably, rascally robin #3(his name is Horace) pokes his beak out, "Help! Help! I'm being sat on!!"

Momma robin, "Horace, if you don't stay down, I'll have your dad come sit on you!"

Two days later . . . feathers and pinions start appearing.

I think this guy was tryin' to tell his momma something . . ."Worm? Please? Now? Soon?"

Incidentally though, we found out they were old enough to recognize vibrations as the signal that their parents had arrived with food, however, all vibrations must sound alike to baby robins, because a photographer traipsing down the stairs had the same effect. =D
Only one took the bait though.  ;)

Lunchtime!

After watching them a couple days, I noticed something odd she would do. After she fed them she would pause a while, cock her head, look at them (all jabbering at once), open and close her beak a few times, then fly off.

Now I'm sure there's a logical explanation for this, but one wonders if it's really a (one sided) conversation:

Baby robin #1(We'll call him Robert)  "What's for lunch?!  Are we having worms again?! Is that all their is out there?! What do caterpillars taste like?!"
Baby robin #2  (Harold, at the same time) "Mommmm! Horace just stuck his wing in my eye again! And he was crowding me earlier!! And-"
Baby robin #3 "Mom! Mom! Guess what?! I saw something! It was REALLY big and part of it was square and black, and Robert thought it was you with food!"

This has got to be one of my favorites: Mouths open all the way!

Did you know baby robins can sleep-eat?
They really would fall asleep with their mouths open!

They are just so funny.

Welp, that's all for now!

God Bless!

                                   ~Jenny  ♥

Nine

I've counted 'em all up.

We have Nine Robin nests in our yard.

You're probably thinking "Woa! They must have a ton of trees!"

Cloooooose, but also a mile off. ;)






They decided not to use the trees . . .

See what happened is this: One day a robin started building her nest. Then another female robin saw her and said "Ooooh, what a good idea!" and the second robin started building a nest on the steps as well. This did not agree with the first robin, who chased her off repeatedly. (Which is probably why there's a nest on so many of the steps!)
Eventually, the second robin gave up and built her nest elsewhere.

Also, since she built her nest in view of the window, we got to see how a robin  nest is made!
She started by gathering and arranging wisps of dried grass, then (and I never would have guessed that they do this) she plopped down in the nest and fluffed herself out as much as she could- to round it out! Up, down, fluff, up, down, fluff...etc. Each time turning about 90 degrees.

Is that cool or what!   =D

God Bless!

                                   ~Jenny  ♥

 

 

It all started with a rabbit . . .

You know the kind, plump, drunk with sun and almost (almost) oblivious to the photographer two feet away.

Anyway, one golden late afternoon, he was sitting sweetly under the trellis, dappled in the evening light.
It was a sweet picture. (As sweet as rabbits go anyway . . . =P )

 Having got my picture, I then turned to leave the backyard, as most of it was in shadow, when I saw his friend:

Yeah, pretty much a ball of fluff.



Anyway, in front there were these lovely sparkles...

 Can you guess where they were?

Yup, plain ole' pavement under the car!




 I moved on to other subjects...

Winter sure can be pretty colorful sometimes; all is not gray and grim, but also golden and glowing.

God Bless!

                                   ~Jenny  ♥

365 days with a Camera

Of the 13,627 pictures I took this year, these are my favorites.  =)





I think I never realized how much beauty there was in my little world! 

Camera's are a wonderful invention. =)

I'm still learning the best way to capture it all.

~Jenny