American Robins Come to Visit

It is always fun to get to see Mother Nature in action. My sister Stephanie told me about her new visitors a couple weeks ago. She seems to attract baby robins near. This year she discovered American Robins building a nest on her new front porch. I got to see her welcome home guests while visiting this weekend.


First thing out of bed, I grabbed my camera to get pictures. The first image you can see a tiny little beak peaking up over the edge of the birds nest.
If you are having trouble making that out, just click on the thumbnail to see the larger image. You can see the porch light that the robins built their nest on.

I'm not sure if you can see the angle of this picture. But the nest is over my head. I had to come up with a solution to that problem if I wanted to get a look inside the nest.

Meanwhile I captured Mama bird on the roof keeping a close eye on me. She is making sure no harm will come to her sleeping babies.

I smiled at her and said, "Trust me, I don't want to harm your babies. I just want to take a few pictures."

I don't think she believed me. She just kept traveling from spot to spot, watching me the whole time.


With the help of a kitchen chair, I was able to get a shot of this nest full of sleeping baby birds.

Isn't it amazing how baby birds fill their nest from toe to toe? They seem to spend most of their growing life sleeping. Sleeping that is unless they think they heard mama coming with food.


Getting off the chair wasn't as quiet as getting up. And when my foot hit the porch babies popped up their heads looking for food.

Although I didn't mean to do it, I was glad they woke up. Otherwise I would not have been able to capture those long necks and open mouths anticipating breakfast.

Hmmmm, it would seem all babies, even the human ones, want food as soon as they wake up. These baby robins reminded me of my daughter when she was just a toddler. She would stand by my side in the morning chanting, "Ungy, Ungy, Ungy...". This would continue until I placed her breakfast in front of her. In case you are wondering, "Ungy" was her pronunciation of Hungry.


Back to the Robins. Movement in the nest makes mama really nervous. She ruffles her feathers and squawks at me. Her warning quiets the babies and they lay back down in their safe haven.

I have heard mother birds often warn their young to be quiet. And the babies always listen.

Hope you enjoyed this visit with nature.  Here are a few related articles about birds you may like:

In Baby Birds Looking For Food Stephanie shares her picture and the thrill of capturing it. She said to me, I really wanted to have a picture of them sticking their little necks up.

Michelle from West Virginia shares house wren baby bird pictures with readers on her own page.

Last year Stephanie had Robin Baby Bird Pictures that she took at her old house. Here she shares the whole story from eggs to fledgling in pictures.

In the summer of 2008 I had the opportunity to follow a family of Barn Swallow nesting under a park pavilion. I didn't get pictures of eggs but there are lots of little heads popping up over the nests. There were actually multiple nests of swallows in the same location that summer.