Topic: robins nest..any bird people?

[jesssands]

Hi..
I have a robins nest outside my kichen window.
I watched robin build it on my bank on 11 march.
It is right on my back path (kitchen one side, bank the other)


Anyway.. just been in the kitchen this morning, pottering about and mrs robin went in and then mr robin came. Now I think mrs is still in there but he's been coming and going all morning.

 
Does this mean that maybe there are chicks in there?

And will I disrupt them by going up and down the path, dogs aswell..?
Guessing that they must be ok as we have been in and out all this time but not seen them as much as I have today.

[Ellen K]

All you can do is try to stay away from the nest site and keep quiet.  You can usually tell if they are feeding their young because they have food in their beaks.  My robins were doing the naughty a few weeks ago so something should be happening now but I have no idea where the nest is.  But robins should have laid eggs by now - perhaps your birds are still making up their minds? 

The blackbirds on the other hand - it is day 11 for nest feeding and there is tweeting from the nest site but we are not supposed to know where it is.  Keep seeing them with food in their beaks and have to look away so they can fly to the nest.  Oh well, if it makes them happy ....

[Sparkly]

We had a robin that nested in the ivy on the side of our house right next to the back door. You couldn't really keep away from it and we got a nest there a good few years in a row. You could see right in at times.

[Aden Roller]

Once the robin has decided it's a safe place to nest it'll take more than a bit of walking by to put them off. (Just watch out for cats taking an interest!!!!!!!)

Last year I frequently found a robin in my dad's lean-to greenhouse / conservatory on the back of their bungalow. It appeared among the tomato plants so I left the window open for it as I was fed up shooing it out through the sliding door.

One afternoon it flew into my parents backroom and perched on the exercise bike which delighted my parents. (They are in their 90s)

A week later, having seen the robin nearly always at the far end of the conservatory, I watched it flit under the workbench near the backroom door and disappear into an old partly open compost bag.

It had a nest!!!

Later the chicks too appeared flitting about and followed mum (or maybe it was dad) into the big cool outside world.

[Ophi]

We don't leave our outside toilet and shed doors open anymore as a couple of years ago a robin decided to nest on top of the cistern.  The door is opposite our back door and it was lovely to see the robins in and out but couldn't use the loo and had to traipse through the house with mucky clothes.

Worth it though but will avoid in other years.

[jesssands]

well, we carried on as normal yest. We needed to do some work in the garden and so needed to use the path. The garden is on top of the bank where the nest is tho, and they both were coming and going all day. Couple of times one sat on the window sill, staring at me, contemplating going in the nest. But they seem undeterred.
They are both carrying food to the nest. Every few mins there is activity  :)
Cats are no prob here as the staffies see to that!

I went on and had a read on the rspb web page, bout robins breeding.

Cant wait to see babies learn to fly.

[star]

How lovely! It is amazing to watch them close up  ;D

[jesssands]

I can see the babies in the nest from the window today.
Ev time mum and dad take in food I can see the mouths open on stretched necks.
Was stood at the window in my pajamas for half hour lol

love it x

 ;D

[Aden Roller]

I hope they've got hot water bottles.

Chilly out  :(

[Hazelb]

aahh! please keep us updated. There are nests about in my garden, but none are visible. A pair of black birds nested by the front door, laid 4 eggs then decided it was just too busy and abandoned the nest.


Sad , but better now than when the eggs had hatched!

[Aden Roller]

Something somewhere has been busy.... noticed an egg shell in the flower bed. Blackbird I think. What a damp start in life.  :( It's pouring.

[jesssands]

Our babies are getting big in the hole/nest.
Can see them fidgeting about in there.
Mum or dad or both (cant work out whos who)
are looking a bit bedraggled in this wet weather.
They work so hard.. coming and going every few mins with food.
They take what looks like a white pellet away from the nest every so often, I can only think maybe that its poo.. keeping it clean in there.
They get a bit sketchy about us in the kitchen window.. dont stop long and it seems they look you right in the eye! Hope they know by now that we aint gonna touch them babies.
Lucky for them, we both on days this week, so no disturbances.

[jesssands]

one of the babies escaped the nest today, he had been stretching and testing his wings all afternoon on the edge of the nest.
I managed to get a pic before he went. I hope he'll be ok, 6pm was a bit late in the day for his first venture. He bounced off, flew on our wheelie bin, over the fence, few more attempted flights and he was gone. Think mum was looking for him.   ???

[Paulines7]

Aren't they cute!  Lucky you to be able to spy on them from your window.

[twins 59]

 :DHi just read about your Robins,I have 2 nest boxes one on shed other on  Kitchen wall,The  one on the Shed as been there years, I was amazed to see Blue Tits nesting there, few days later the nest on the wall also have blue tits in, not sure about  eggs
 A lot of goings on.
Twins59

[Jayb]

Love the updates and smashing picture, thanks for sharing  :)

[Aden Roller]

A lovely looking clutch of baby robins there jessands. As Jayb says.. thanks for sharing.

It amazes me how the fledglings survive when you consider how small and vulnerable they are to say nothing of the weather. If only all human parents worked as hard as most robins seem to schools would have an easier time of it!  ;)

[jesssands]

 :'(

sadly one little robin didnt make it.
We found him on the path this afternoon.
Was sad after how much effort they put in to get them that far.

[Aden Roller]

:'(

sadly one little robin didnt make it.
We found him on the path this afternoon.
Was sad after how much effort they put in to get them that far.

I guess that's often the case and maybe why they often have a second brood later in the year if they can.  :(