They arrived a couple of week ago, found our feeder right away.
Mad Max Lawnmower
We bought a 2nd hand sacrificial lawnmower to drag over all the stumps left from the land reclamation. Bush hogging leaves them high enough to be very annoying so it’s time to accelerate the decomposing process. The lawnmower takes a beating in the process, I’m literally pulling it over 1″ to 2″ thick stumps as it jumps around.
First inspection
They’re not raging but there’s brood and they’re happy.
Protected: Cool Duplo Project #33 – Huge Ship
One egg hatched last night
Here we go again
Robin eggs
Towards the end of Winter, we’ve had the great privilege of observing a robin build a nest in a small pine right next to the house. We’d see it pick dry grass and go in the same tree over and over again. We found the really quaint nest it built.
Working on the beehives a few days ago, which are close to the nest; the robin would take off and start chirping in alarm relentlessly until I left. This happens every time we get close to the nest.
We soon found the reason why:
I really like how the inside of the nest is made with finer material. Thinking about mama robin choosing carefully each piece of grass anthropomorphizes the bird.
All in all, it chose a pretty horrible spot for a nest: a very small pine well within reach of predators and close to humans and bees. But it’s very very accessible for us to observe 🙂 we try not to intrude too much. And we’ll definitely keep the predators away.