Our Robin's Nest: Three Little Birdlings on our Windowsill

       This year, a robin kindly built her nest on a low outside windowsill.  First the nest appeared, all cleverly made with thin twigs and even some of our purple Easter grass that migrated from one of the girls' Easter baskets.  It seemed a long wait, but sometime in April (after peaking into the nest a thousand times!) I spied four gorgeously bold jade-colored eggs.  Magnificent. 

        Tragedy of some kind met one of the eggs because I found a partially broken and very empty egg in the grass below the nest. Then, on May Day, two little baby robins hatched from their eggs! Liliana and Vera Rose shrieked with delight when I held them up to see the fascinatingly bald, ugly/beautiful birds with their tiny necks, their huge closed eyes and their spindly wings as the birdlings peacefully slept. When the birds move, their heads bobble and collapse quickly. 

May 1st:  Day 1: two robins hatch from eggs and huddle next to the remaining egg.



May 1st:  Day 1 with two birds hatching.

       By Day 2, the remaining egg had hatched overnight and all three birds periodically stopped their rest to raise their heads and open their beaks to swallow the entire sky.  Tiny chirping sounds can now be heard, not even drowned out by the noise of the worried mother chirping at me from the nearby lilac bush.  These hatchlings are so tufty and grotesque yet so meticulously detailed and lovely.  I feel so privileged to watch them grow and so delighted to share such a wonder of Creation with Liliana and Vera Rose. 

May 2nd: Day 2 of life