Every year for the nine years we have lived here robins have built a nest on our front porch. This is not a particularly good place to set up housekeeping since there is an astonishing amount of human foot traffic on the porch. Most years the robin gives up on the nest pretty early in the game and, I hope, builds a nest in a more secluded area. This year the robin decided to stick it out:
This robin can frequently be found sitting on her nest. She flies to a nearby tree when she is disturbed which is quite often since we keep forgetting she is there. This spot must have some very desireable feature that is obvious to robins because a nest is built here every year in this exact spot. But only one other time has the robin stayed in the nest until her eggs have hatched. We were particularly fortunate that year because we happened to be leaving the house to catch the school bus just as the baby birds were taking their first flight. Needless to say we stayed to watch, missed the bus and had to drive to school but it was well worth the inconvenience. Sometimes you just have to rearrange your priorities . I’m hoping we’ll be so lucky this year.
