3 weeks ago, Victoria was so very disappointed.
For the first time in 3 years, robins had elected to build a nest in the swingset and had laid eggs. Being an animal-lover, she was excited for the eggs to hatch and to watch them grow up. Then a predator ransacked the nest; Keith found the broken eggs one day when he was mowing and the nest had been abandoned.
Or that is what we thought until – after another week – birds started flying in and out again and there were 4 new eggs in the nest. 12 days later the first would hatch. The next day another. And another again the next day. As of this morning, there is one more egg that remains unhatched.
Victoria is elated. Momma-robin, on the other hand, is not quite as excited about the attention that is garnered by her babes, neither from Victoria nor Colton.