Robins nesting on my tractor

[philoshop]

They incorporated the three-point-hitch lever into their new digs, so I really didn't have an option about leaving them alone. It's hard to run the tractor without that particular lever.

I really like birds, and especially robins, ever since I dated a gal named Robin. She never threw up worms to feed me, thankfully, but she was very cool. I took the nest off my tractor and put it into a wheelbarrow close-by that I rarely use. Hopefully the parents will find the little guys and continue to take care of them.

[Lawdwaz]

I also dated a Robin. One great story I CAN’T share in the open forum.......funny as heck!!

i have a Robin’s next picture I’ll share in a bit. There’s four baby robins in it now, ready to rock n roll. 

[Pygmy]

3 minutes ago, Lawdwaz said:

I also dated a Robin. One great story I CAN’T share in the open forum.......funny as heck!!

i have a Robin’s next picture I’ll share in a bit. There’s four baby robins in it now, ready to rock n roll. 

I'll remind you to relate that story in camp this coming weekend..Hehehe...

[Pygmy]

3 hours ago, philoshop said:

They incorporated the three-point-hitch lever into their new digs, so I really didn't have an option about leaving them alone. It's hard to run the tractor without that particular lever.

I really like birds, and especially robins, ever since I dated a gal named Robin. She never threw up worms to feed me, thankfully, but she was very cool. I took the nest off my tractor and put it into a wheelbarrow close-by that I rarely use. Hopefully the parents will find the little guys and continue to take care of them.

I hope they adapt to the new location, Mark.....I had a pair trying to build a nest this spring on a light fixture right above our main entrance...Since I couldn't tolerate the mess, as soon as they put up nesting materials, I tore it down..They were pretty stubborn, but after a few days they evidently gave up and moved their nest elsewhere...I imagine the hen bird was getting close to laying and was tired of flying around diamond cheeked...Hehehe...

[Lawdwaz]

It has to do with 4 people in a pop up camper......

[philoshop]

I think there were five or six in the nest. I felt bad about moving them but the grass in my yard was almost up to my knees. I had to mow. I hope the parents will find them in the wheelbarrow and take care of them.

[Lawdwaz]

The nest is on an aluminum extension ladder that hangs on the back of the building at work.  I saw the eggs a few weeks ago and now they're read to go off on their own.  Fortunately that particular ladder get little action. 

I took this picture yesterday........

[Lawdwaz]

I forgot I took a picture of the eggs.  May 8th.........

[philoshop]

18 minutes ago, Pygmy said:

I hope they adapt to the new location, Mark.....I had a pair trying to build a nest this spring on a light fixture right above our main entrance...Since I couldn't tolerate the mess, as soon as they put up nesting materials, I tore it down..They were pretty stubborn, but after a few days they evidently gave up and moved their nest elsewhere...I imagine the hen bird was getting close to laying and was tired of flying around diamond cheeked...Hehehe...

My father is a retired dentist. There were robins in the light fixtures outside of the main entrance to his office. They basically terrorized everyone, swooping and diving and acting like Jihadis.  No one was ever hurt, of course, but it was a bit unsettling for people who were about to have a root canal anyway. Nothing like ramping up the anxiety level for that.

I've mentioned this here before, but the best was the hammering sound from the air handling system that disrupted the whole office. I was on a roof in downtown Geneva when my Dad called and told me to come over immediately. I drove to Newark and found a pileated woodpecker on my Dad's roof hammering away at the stainless steel sheet metal on the exhaust stack of his air handling system. Birds don't have large brains. I had an owl decoy that kept it away.