Re: Watching robins

Martini wrote:
maryann kolb wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:21:26 -0400, Cheryl Isaak <cherylisaak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was sort of staring out into the front yard while folding
laundry and become puzzled by what was watching. An mature robin
was feeding another bird that was hopping around behind it.

I went down stairs and grabbed the binoculars. Lo and behold -
mom or dad was feeding a fledging insects from the lawn. I had at
least three parent fledging pairs hopping around.

Sadly, no one else was interested.....

We're interested! Yesterday I had a Red-bellied Woodpecker bring
her youngster to the suet feeder. He tried very hard to learn how
to get at the suet with little success. there is something very
endearing about the clumsiness of a baby bird.

We have a number of baby birds, but no woodpeckers. We almost never see more than one Redbelly, and then it is usually on the platform, not the suet cage.

There's something very endearing about the patience add commitment
of mothers.

Yesterday (one of the?) Mom Turkey stood for the longest time on the deck rail at the platform but facing away from it, towards the woods in that direction.

We believe she was calling young ones to join her, but they never did.

She walked along the rail in the direction she was looking, calling all the while.

She eventually left and we never saw the little ones[1}.

[1] "little ones" _is_ a relative term.

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