11th July 2024: ROBIN CHICK STEPS OUT OF NEST

 

Early in the season, we had two Robins courting one another. Usually, when Robins are adults, they prefer to live life singulary. My better half decided to place an old blue teapot at the apex of three conifer braches, in the hope that the Robins would nest in the teapot.

Well, those Robins got together and built a nest within the teapot. They produced 4 eggs and those eggs hatched 4 chicks! I set up a CCTV camera, once they had set up the nest, under the eye of the adult Robin.

Adult feeds chicks & below, removes poo!

We watched them grow on the monitor screen, from the comfort of our living room. The adults, constantly coming and going, but only between the nest and our back door, where we fed all the birds which partook in mealworms.

Eventally, 11th July, one of the chicks must've decide that it was time to stretch its legs. So unsteadily, it stepped out of the nest, took a final snack from its parent and was gone. Slowly staggering its way around to the back of the conifer trunk. The other three weren't witnessed leaving the nest, but the nest is now empty. Three Juvenile Robins were seen in the garden and two eventualy started to develop rest breasts.

Fast-forward to the present day (early October), there are now two Robins, who appear to be frequenting opposite sides of the garden and eating mealworms and arguing/fighting one another. Are these two of the four fcormer chicks......who knows?

RJC

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