Today's excitement was provided by this young robin, who smacked himself into the large kitchen window. PopPop was a tiny bit pleased about this - not that the bird got hurt, but that he couldn't see the glass - since he had just washed the windows a couple days ago. Anyway, after sitting on PopPop's veggie collection basket for a while, then on the basketball hoop (had to move him from there, Little One was reaching for him), then in the wet grass, he finally flew off. There are mass quantities of robins in the yard lately, we must have had 5-6 nests hatch. There have been some other young birds flitting around that are clearly not robins, and today I finally realized they are young Baltimore Orioles. We had two pair in the lower yard this Spring. At least one pair nested successfully!Sunday, August 27, 2006
Young Robin
Today's excitement was provided by this young robin, who smacked himself into the large kitchen window. PopPop was a tiny bit pleased about this - not that the bird got hurt, but that he couldn't see the glass - since he had just washed the windows a couple days ago. Anyway, after sitting on PopPop's veggie collection basket for a while, then on the basketball hoop (had to move him from there, Little One was reaching for him), then in the wet grass, he finally flew off. There are mass quantities of robins in the yard lately, we must have had 5-6 nests hatch. There have been some other young birds flitting around that are clearly not robins, and today I finally realized they are young Baltimore Orioles. We had two pair in the lower yard this Spring. At least one pair nested successfully!
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That's fantastic.. I would have never recognized this bird as a baby robin... now I know. Congrats on the Orioles now that is a feat to be proud of. Pop Pop did a good job of washing those windows!
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