Nathan found a surprise while trimming boxwood beside our front steps. (I love it when he thinks things are getting out of hand and goes ahead and sets things straight. More time for flowers/weeding for me! :) ) I took a picture of the babies every day or two while they grew. They are in the nest for about 14 days. They sure grow fast! We rescues them from a red shouldered hawk a few mornings. The robins were making a racket and we'd have to get up and open the front doors and the hawk would fly away. You'd think that the hawk would just keep hopping around and the louder the robins get, the closer he is to the babies, and find them that way. :p The babies stopped opening up their mouths and making noise shortly after the first hawk incident...maybe it's a natural stage to be more aware by then, or maybe they learned some"street smarts". It was pretty neat watching them grow!!
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Thanks so much for these close up photos!! The babies are so ugly when they hatch, and small but, as you said, they sure grow fast!! The nest looked rather crowded at the end.
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