Fly Robin Fly?

This morning while out on the deck, I saw mama Robin feeding her baby, and coaxing him to fly and feed himself. It was mesmerizing. I'd seen a baby robin the other evening on the edge of my birdbath, and wished him well then. He was able to fly up onto the fence, but very wobbly. It's a cruel world for little baby birds with loose cats in the neighborhood. Today, my supervised while outside hunter cat was in the backyard, but did not see what I saw. For a while at least, until we both heard some thrashing in the honeysuckle bush off the deck. Hunter cat rushed to investigate, but was scooped up and brought inside. I know it's "survival of the fittest" in nature, and cats will be cats, but I'm not against helping the underdog (underbird??) in this case. Reggae was not pleased to be escorted inside, but it had to be done. As I scooped Reggae up, I caught sight of the baby robin holding still in the bush. I brought the camera out to try and get a picture, but the baby was gone. Then, I saw it hopping to a corner of my yard, and into another bush up against the fence.

This is what I saw, two babies!

And they held still to let me get a close up. Too young to know they should get the heck out of dodge. Perhaps instinct told them I was not to be feared. How cute are they?

So, as the song says, "Fly, robin fly Fly, robin fly Fly, robin fly Up, up to the sky." And be safe out there!

I'm pretty sure Mama and Daddy Robin were watching from a distance. A month or two ago, I saw two robins swooping down at something in my back yard one morning. Thinking it was one of those roaming cats I looked out only to find they were chasing a squirrel! Mighty funny.

A week or two ago, I noticed an abandoned bird's nest in my trumpet vine. It had been there for a while, and shortly after a storm had fallen to the ground. I don't know who's nest it was, but some industrious birds sure worked hard! Notice that long blue and white ribbon? That is woven all into the nest. There was a silver streamer in it to, but I can't see it here.

More bird watching for you: This young woodpecker made quite a racket a couple Saturday mornings ago. Woody? If bugs had ears, you surely wouldn't have gotten breakfast that morning!

And I also did manage to get a picture of a hummingbird feeding on the honeysuckle. If you zoom in you can see it better. I put some arrows towards it. I've seen a couple hummingbirds around at a time this year, usually I only see one alone. I love those amazing creatures!