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No more nests. The dog is spoiled enough, I thought, in her insulated little shack with the burlap door and a big green fuzzy blanket. It got down to -30C and Hubby kept insisting that I put straw in her house too. After cooking her dog bones, drying her frozen hide and saving from everything [...]

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I have to add to #5 because that wasn’t all the problems I met with. As I make my way around the pond to see what other damage there was, lo and behold, I found a red-wing blackbird nest and another unknown variety that had been hidden from view.    We both thought the laying [...]

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  No wonder “curiosity killed the cat” as the saying goes. I stuck my nose in where it didn’t belong today. Robins just take off when you approach. NOT Blackbirds. They are aggressive little things. They scare me slightly. I thought I should check to see how they were doing since the Robins are getting [...]

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They are so teeny as you can see by my finger which I purposely put as close to them as possible without touching them. The parents are mad again of course, but they should be thanking me that I didn’t mow them along with the grass around the tree. Beside – now everyone can celebrate [...]

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When I go near the ground nest now, I get ‘dive bombed’ by the parent birds. They are Blackbirds. As I bent down to peek-a-boo at the nest at the base of the tree, I felt the wind of the wings passing just above my head. I’m not sure what it would be like to [...]

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You can sure tell who’s the eldest of the four Robins. It’s the hungriest. I can hardly keep myself from touching their fuzzy little naked  bodies, but I know I dare not. I don’t want the mamma to desert them. The Video.

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                    Hubby found a secret treasure. If he hadn’t pointed it out, I never would have seen it. I had to move a limb away to take this shot, otherwise it was completely hidden. I pulled a big branch out of the way so I could get [...]

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Do all Robin’s lay 4 eggs? This is the second nest with 4 eggs. It was right under my nose in the yard. This nest is higher than the last one that got emptied, so it should be fine. It’s in a bushy spruce about 4′ off the ground, so I won’t have to get [...]

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